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SLAVERY

Unit #8

SLAVERY

Unit #8

Between 10 and 28 million people taken from Africa

17 million Africans sold into slavery on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the Middle

East, & North Africa

12 million Africans taken to the Americas

5 million Africans taken across the Sahara and East Africa into slavery in

other parts of the world

1888 – Brazil became the last western country to end slavery

1936 – Slave trade ended in Africa

Every year up to 120,000 women and children are brought into the European Union by people traffickers. Most are tricked into leaving their homes with promises of a better life. Some are simply abducted. All are destined for exploitation.

Once there, they are forced into prostitution or used as a source of cheap labor by unscrupulous employers, in sectors ranging from domestic work to farming, manufacturing and construction.

UNICEF estimates that 200,000 children from West & Central Africa are sold into slavery each year.

In India, between 200,000 & 300,000 children are Kidnapped from their villages when they are as young as five years old, and held captive in locked rooms and forced to weave on looms for food.

Domestic trafficking is the biggest problem in China, with an estimated minimum of 10,000 to 20,000 victims trafficked internally each year. International organizations report that 90% are women and children

Slavery TodayChildren are commonly sold to work in factories and fields in South Asia, Southeast Asia, & Europe

Young girls/women are commonly sold into prostitution in Eastern Europe & Southeast Asia

An estimated 27 million people are enslaved today