3. To begin with, in 1619, 20 Africans
were brought to America aboard a
Dutch ship. They were marked as
servants, charged to work to
repay, their transportation, food and
board then they were released as free
men. Even though they were freed
after their labor was completed they
were still brought over involuntarily.
Originally, the work was not
inheritable.
The slaves were expected to perform
hard labor and, in some cases, sexual
favors.
4. From what I could find, race was not a determining
factor in a person’s slavery. There was a
report, however, of three slaves (two European, one
African) having run away, the European slaves were
expected to continue working for one more year then
attain their freedom while the African was made to
keep working until he died.
5. All over the world, at any
given moment there are over
2o million people being held
as slaves. Considering the
world’s population is three
billion, that’s too much.
6. I was reading and doing research, and
well this guy wrote a book. And when
he was doing research for his book he
was in Bucharest, he came across this
girl. She had Down Syndrome, she was
under 15 years of age, she was being
raped 3-4 times a day…this is real.
This kind of thing happens everyday
and hardly enough -to put a crack in
the number- is being done about it.
7. IN HAITI
Take Haiti for an example if you would. Children are sold
there as sex slaves and hard laborers, working in fields or
cleaning monstrous mansions, or either they’re raped and
beaten.
Children are either kidnapped or sold by other slave
traders to one another in exchange for money and goods.
Adults are not used as slaves because not as much money
can be made off of them, children under 15 years of age
is most common. “Race didn’t matter,” one article
stated, “As long as it’s black, it’s ok..” It? A pronoun
restating a human being?
8. MODERN SLAVERY IN HAITI CONT.
Labor probably isn’t inheritable. From
what I could tell, if a woman became
pregnant, she was A) made to abort
the child or B) the child was
born, raised and then sold as
another slave.
Usually, in modern slavery, slaves
cannot earn their freedom, they’re
either worked to death, or released
by their owners.
9. SLAVERY IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
• Slaves were most used in history in Rome.
• Rome had their prosperity to thank the slaves for.
• Romans, however, treated their slaves very well. Often
taking them in and treating them as their own children.
10. Slavery in Ancient Greece and
Rome cont.
The labor consisted of agricultural work, business and
construction.
Race was not considered a factor in determining
slaves, most were given as a peace offerings or taken as war
prisoners. The work was not inheritable either.
Most slaves could not obtain freedom.
