Tuesday, December 10, 2013

More slaves now than at any other time in history

Via Billy
Simba, 14, is one of thousands of children kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and used as slaves in the border regions of South Sudan, Central African Republic and the Congo.

There are more people in slavery today than at any time in human history. The best estimate, according to the U.S. State Department, is 27 million, and that does not include bonded labour. This is more than double the total taken from West Africa during the transatlantic slave trade in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

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