“People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.” PeopleTodayModernSlaveryTradeSlaveHeightModern DayTraffickingSlave TradeModern Day Slavery Author:Ross Kemp
“Rigorously investigated and fearlessly reported, A Crime So Monstrous is a passionate and thorough examination of the appalling reality of human bondage in today's world. In his devastating narrative, Ben Skinner boldly casts light on the unthinkable, yet thriving, modern-day practice of slavery, exposing a global trade in human lives. The abuses detailed in these pages are repugnant, but there is hope to be found: by giving voice to the victims, Skinner helps restore their dignity and makes crucial strides toward closing this shameful chapter in history.” WorldGivingHumansHelpingRealityLightTodayFoundVoicePracticeModernCrimePagesDignityAbuseVictimSlaveryTradeCastsPassionateNarrativeHuman LifeCrucialChaptersBondageClosingExaminationMonstrousShamefulThoroughStrideUnthinkableExposingModern DayThere Is HopeToday's WorldHuman BondageSkinnerGiving Voice Author:William J. Clinton
“The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.” NeedsYearsReasonBodyLightLastsLiteratureTermFiveFourHundredSlaveryTradeSlaveContactJustifySlave Trade Author:Chinua Achebe
“. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!” Has BeensBookDifferentSchoolLostPiecesSubjectsSightShameSlaveryTradeSlaveBurningKnivesSlave TradePruning Author:Robert Purvis
“Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.” FactsCoursesChristianitySlaveryTradeSlaveIslamEastDestroyedSlave Trade Author:Ibn Warraq
“Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.” PeopleFirstsMeanHas BeensPayCasesTaughtBecomingSkillsTaxesRegardSlaveryTradeMereIllArtisticGentlemanLabourRejectedVulgarPledgeManualsLivelihoodWorkmenUndesirableIll WillUnbecomingManual Labour Book:Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
“There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.” IfsWorldStillsTodayAmountSlaveryTradeSlaveHeightWorld TodaySlave Trade Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it.” PeopleEvidenceSlaveryTradeSlaveInstinctSymbolsRepresentationLynchingSlave Trade Author:Bryan Stevenson
“Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In short, it's modern day slavery.” HumansPurposeHuman BeingsModernLaborSlaveryTradeIllegalExploitationModern DayHuman TraffickingTraffickingModern Day Slavery Author:Jen Lilley
“The main challenge Not For Sale is big and it is modern day slavery, which is a $32billion dollar industry second to the illegal trade of drugs and arms.” BigsChallengesModernArmsIndustryDrugSlaveryTradeDollarsIllegalModern DayModern Day Slavery Author:David Batstone
“Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very insulting to black Dutch people. It's shocking to me that it still exists, but I think it's about the lack of knowledge and education regarding the roots of the character in the slave trade.” PeopleThinkingShouldLongStillsCharacterBlackRootsShould HaveSlaveryTradeSlaveShockingInsultingDutchRelicsEducation And KnowledgeSlave TradeLack Of Knowledge Author:Roger Ross Williams
“Can you get it? (Jaden) If I swear myself to eternal slavery to Artemis. Yes. (Acheron) I’d rather trade places with Prometheus and have my innards ripped out every day. (Jaden) So would I. (Acheron)” IfsEternalSlaveryTradeSwearRippedArtemisPrometheus Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you may bear in the future. I would trade no day I spend with you for a life of safe slavery. I accepted the post of Seeker of my own free will. And if Darken Rahl takes the whole world into madness, then we will die with a sword in our hands, not chains on our wings. We will not allow it to be easy for them to kill us; they will pay a high price. We will fight with our last breath if need be, and in our death, let us inflict a wound on him that will fester until it claims him.” IfsWorldNeedsMayChildrenSaidWholeHandsLastsDiesFightingEasyMy OwnPayBearsSafeClaimsMadnessBreathsSlaveryTradeWingsAddBonesProtectionAcceptedWoundsWhole WorldChainsPostsFree WillSeekersOathHigh Prices Book:Wizard's First Rule Source: Wizard's First Rule
“In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there is no doubt that coming generations will think that our form of world trade and distribution of the world's benefits were just as inconceivable and inhuman.” ThinkingWorldWayTodayFormWealthDoubtGenerationsBenefitsSlaveryTradeSlaveRichesNo DoubtExploitationDistributionInhumanWorld TradeSlave Trade Author:Erik Dammann
“The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.” StatesMankindSlaveryTradeSlaveAbolitionDisgracefulDiabolicalSlave Trade Author:George Mason
“There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more infamous practice than slavery in the ancient world - was initiated, carried on and defended by Christian men in Christian countries.” MenWorldCountryChristianReligionCommonChristianityPracticeAtheismClaimsResponsibleSlaveryTradeSlaveAncientJustificationAbolitionInfamousSlave TradeAncient WorldAbolition Of Slavery Author:Margaret E. Knight
“The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the Atlantic slave trade and its consequences on three continents. This book is full of fresh ideas and astounding detail; it is at once great storytelling, punctuated with real people and voices, and an unblinking analysis of numerous great questions and paradoxes about the power of slavery in creating the Atlantic world over four centuries.” PeopleWorldBookIdeasRealDoneThreeVoiceFourWrittenCenturyCreatingConsequenceSlaveryTradeSlaveDetailsStorytellingAnalysisParadoxContinentsVolumeIncomparableSlave TradeFresh Ideas Author:David W. Blight
“In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.” HumansChildrenAgeReligionChurchCenturyPositionSlaveryTradeSlave Author:Mark Twain
“The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the heads of all the great departments of trade, and the law of Cain, which repudiates the obligations that we are mutually under to one another, is fostered and made the rule of action throughout the world. Corporate feudality has taken the place of chattel slavery and vaunts its power in every state.” PeopleWorldMadeStatesActionLawKnownStruggleTakenSlaveryTradeObligationGoldenCorporateDepartmentRejectedCivicsGolden RuleCainVaunt Author:James B. Weaver
“We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.” HumansTwoShowsLastsPurposeFightingEvilEnergyHuman BeingsCenturySlaveryTradeSlaveOur TimeThriveAbolitionSlave TradeStrongholdsNew EnergyFighting Back Author:George W. Bush
“In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into sexual slavery. But that's not the only purpose that human beings are sold for. They are sold in the name of adoption. They are sold in the name of organ trade. They are sold in the name of forced labor, camel jockeying, anything, everything.” HumansChildrenInspirationYoungPurposeMotivationThreeNamesHuman BeingsFourLaborIndiaSlaveryTradeOrgansAdoptionGlobesCamels Author:Sunitha Krishnan
“To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.” MenLittlesHas BeensHandsAblePoorNumbersRichMassLaborSlaveryTradeLaysHiringRich ManYokeSmall Numbers Author:Pope Leo XIII
“The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.” Has BeensSaidMatterStatesHouseSlaveryTradeSlaveProceedingPetitionsSlave Trade Author:Caleb Cushing
“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.” GovernmentPoliticsFreedomLibertySlaveryTradeLibertarianSocialismCommunismAnarchyFascismFreeMafiaCoercionNazismStateStatismOmnipotentVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapTotalitarianFree MarketsRegime Book:Omnipotent Government Source: Omnipotent Government