Did you know there are 27 million slaves in the world?

[bhanson]

In fact, legal slavery did end. Slavery is illegal in every country of the world. Nonetheless there are more slaves today than ever before: 27 million, twice as many as the number of Africans enslaved during the four centuries of the transatlantic slave trade, according to a calculation that slavery expert Kevin Bales calls conservative. Bales, a sociologist at Roehampton University in London who spoke at the UUA's 2003 General Assembly, estimates that 50,000 people are forced to work as slaves in the United States today.

http://www.uuworld.org/2004/06/feature1.html

 

[Kelvrick]

Where is mine?

 

[waggy]

and this is news? is t here anyone that didn't know this? slavery was not just the blacks (btw whites were slaves too in teh US) in the US but nearly EVERY race and culture and sadly it still goes on.

but i suspect this is just a troll thread.

 

[zerocool84]

and this is news? is t here anyone that didn't know this? slavery was not just the blacks in the US but nearly EVERY race and culture and sadly it still goes on.

Shens, everyone knows there's no way white people could be enslaved. Quebert knows.

 

[bhanson]

and this is news? is t here anyone that didn't know this? slavery was not just the blacks (btw whites were slaves too in teh US) in the US but nearly EVERY race and culture and sadly it still goes on.

but i suspect this is just a troll thread.

How can this possibly be construed as a troll thread? What if you found out there was a slave on your street.

Wealthy people in New York, London, Paris, and other Western cities have promised young women jobs as nannies or household help and a chance to go to school, then forced them to work without pay. Joy Zarembka, director of the Break the Chain Campaign in Washington, D.C., told me she was shocked to discover an enslaved domestic worker on her very own street.

 

[HappyPuppy]

We are all slaves, some moreso than others. The OP must be very young or very naive.

 

[Bateluer]

World population then vs now?

 

[SphinxnihpS]

There are also more than 11 Trillion (TRILLION!!!) shocking statistics.

 

[DougoMan]

Is this another attempt to justify the enslavement of black people?

 

[DougoMan]

Did you know there are now six billion people in the world.

26 million divided by six billion is...

 

[theflyingpig]

Like prostitution, slavery will never go away. It is part of human nature, and nothing can change that. Evolution, you see, dictates that slavery is a necessity for human civilization. Look back through history and you will see the evidence for this. So-called 'progressives' will try to argue otherwise, but thinking men, like myself, know better. Everyone knows this.

 

[zinfamous]

the only thing that pisses me off about this number...is that I ain't got no slaves.

how many fucking provinces does a dude have to conquer...to get hisself some slaves?

 

[zinfamous]

I think The Flying Pig needs his own internet-wide meme/avatar...merchandise and such.

seriously.

Who's with me?

 

[The Boston Dangler]

there's millions of (unofficial) slaves in arab states like UAE and kuwait. desperately poor workers are recruited from india and africa. once in the country, their passports are confiscated, they're paid a fraction of what's promised and they live like livestock. this is not to be confused with the luxurious compounds built for europeans and chinese to live in while working in the arab states.

 

[bfdd]

I think The Flying Pig needs his own internet-wide meme/avatar...merchandise and such.

seriously.

Who's with me?

everyone knows this

 

[zinfamous]

there's millions of (unofficial) slaves in arab states like UAE and kuwait. desperately poor workers are recruited from india and africa. once in the country, their passports are confiscated, they're paid a fraction of what's promised and they live like livestock. this is not to be confused with the luxurious compounds built for europeans and chinese to live in while working in the arab states.

Dubai's population is at least 20% slave, no?

I know that that it is ~80% non-native...

 

[dammitgibs]

Only 3.25% of the slave trade went to the "english Americas"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade

 

[OCGuy]

Only 3 are in Old's basement.

 

[BoomerD]

1) I don't own any slaves.
2) I knowingly get no tangible benefit from anyone owning slaves.
3) I don't know anyone who owns slaves, nor do I know anyone who is a slave.

Therefore, I think it's a terrible thing...and that ends my "give-a-shit."

 

[foghorn67]

there's millions of (unofficial) slaves in arab states like UAE and kuwait. desperately poor workers are recruited from india and africa. once in the country, their passports are confiscated, they're paid a fraction of what's promised and they live like livestock. this is not to be confused with the luxurious compounds built for europeans and chinese to live in while working in the arab states.

Yeah, but they are getting cool skyscrapers and man made islands from all of that.

 

[Riceninja]

one day i will have a white slave

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

one day i will have a white slave

how much are you paying? i might consider....

 

[SphinxnihpS]

how much are you paying? i might consider....

fail

 

[WildHorse]

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[QueBert]

What you're saying is people with dark skin not from Africa are not okay with Africans being referred to as black. Yet they are okay with the word negro. Which means black just in another language. You say they are not black they are nergo, but the word's one in the same. You are telling us to not use a word and instead use a different word, which is the same word?

BRILLIANT.