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Who was affected by the first acts of slavery? (1)
1610 - Henry Hudson's, The Half Moon, arrives in the "New World" carrying African slaves. Dutch were deeply involved in the African slave trade and brought the trade to the American colonies (built and grew wealthy on an Atlantic empire of sugar, slaves, and ships) |
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Who was affected by the first acts of slavery? (1)
1620 - The Pilgrims had servants and not many slaves, meaning that most black servants were given their freedom after turning 25 years old, but indentured servants worked to pay off debts (whether white, black, european) |
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Who was affected by the first acts of slavery? (1)
1800 - Children had always worked, especially in farming, but factory work was hard. A child with a factory job might work 12 to 18 hours a day, six days a week, to earn a dollar. Many children began working before the age of 7, tending machines in spinning mills or hauling heavy loads. |
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Who is affected by modern day slavery? (2)
An estimated 12 - 27 million people are caught in one or another form of slavery. Between 600,000 and 800,000 are trafficked internationally, with as many as 17,500 people trafficked into the United States. Nearly three out of every four victims are women. Half of modern-day slaves are children. |
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Who is affected by modern day slavery? (2)
2.45 million people are being trafficked in the world at any given moment. Nearly half of those being trafficked are for commercial sex exploitation and, increasingly, the victims are girls age 18 or younger. |
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Who is affected by modern day slavery? (2)
The majority of trafficking victims are between 18 and 24 years of age 5, an estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked each year6 |
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Who initiated the act of capturing slaves? (3)
The American colonies were first introduced to slavery by the Dutch (1619) sold twenty of them to settlers in Jamestown |
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Who initiated the act of capturing slaves? (3)
Slavery existed for centuries before the first slaves came to America. Old Egyptian, Greeks, and Romans owned the slaves. In Africa there were many kingdoms and slavery was legal. When Europeans came to Africa, slavery there already existed. |
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Who initiated the act of capturing slaves? (3)
The first European slave traders were from Portugal. Then Spain was one of the biggest slave trading nations. Soon England became on of the biggest slave trading nations. |
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Who profits from slavery today? (4)
The unpaid productivity of these slaves was converted into corporate income and wealth that still sustains many companies today. |
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Who profits from slavery today? (4)
Estimated global annual profits made from the exploitation of all trafficked forced labour are US$ 31.6 billion (criminals benefit) |
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Who profits from slavery today? (4)
We do. Americans use these slaves for sex, buy our clothes for cheap from those who work in sweat shops, our food from those in forced labor. |
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Who initiates the act of slavery today? (5)
Although organized crime gangs are involved in trafficking, much of the trade in humans is carried on by individuals and small groups of criminals always vigilant to capitalize on opportunities |
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Who initiates the act of slavery today? (5)
Unscrupulous labor traffickers round up desperate laborers and help them enter the U.S., where they then entrap them in bonded labor situations and the sex trade for porn videos, etc. |
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Who initiates the act of slavery today? (5)
Families selling their children because they can't afford another mouth to feed. Family problems create a source of ongoing supply for experienced traffickers, especially during economic downturns. Traffickers, often with police complicity, prey on desperate parents by promising to arrange good paying jobs for their children or an opportunity to learn a trade or craft. |
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What is slavery? (6)
A civil relationship in which one person has absolute power over the life, fortune, and liberty of another. |
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What is slavery? (6)
The victim is induced into slave-like exploitation through fraud, force or coercion; are subject to physical abuse and/or psychological intimidation; are not readily able to free themselves from their situation. |
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What is slavery? (6)
Slavery still exists today whether it is called human trafficking, bonded labor, forced labor, or sex trafficking. |
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What are the differences of slavery in the past compared to today? (7)
There's no longer a need for legal ownership; people can be bought, sold and bartered among "owners" who take temporary possession |
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What are the differences of slavery in the past compared to today? (7)
In Britain until 1807 the trade was legal, morally legitimate and seen as in the interests of the nation. Slaves had a high financial value. Today slavery is illegal, considered immoral and slaves have a low financial value but there are more slaves now than 200 years ago. |
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What are the differences of slavery in the past compared to today? (7)
Europeans during the 18th Century justified slavery based upon the Bible and ancient Greek practices. This defense is known as "The Pro-Slavery Argument" which stated that slavery was an institution ordained by God. This argument was used as a defense against the abolitionists charging them with acting against God's will |
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What caused the need for slavery? (8)
The most basic purpose of slavery is to rid oneself of work and force the hideous labor upon someone else. Since the time of our more primitive era, societies have taken slaves from war and conquest, and forced them to do their workaday tasks |
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What caused the need for slavery? (8)
Greed, English men saw a way to profit their pockets without having to do any work themselves |
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What caused the need for slavery? (8)
The use of slave labor, was a coerced, cash-crop system of labor from which slavery became an economic necessity because for a person who owned land they needed workers, and these workers were predominantly Negro slaves brought in sold from Africa. |
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What are the effects of slavery? (9)
Slavery not only inhibited family formation but made stable, secure family life difficult if not impossible. |
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What are the effects of slavery? (9)
Subject to physical abuse and/or psychological damage, when rescued they cannot go back their former lives and have to live in fear and secret |
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What are the effects of slavery? (9)
Death, diseases, deformity, STDs, illness, abuse, mental disorders |
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What is the benefit of slavery today? (10)
Human trafficking is a highly profitable route to wealth and power, now ranking alongside drug and weapons trafficking as the largest criminal activities |
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What is the benefit of slavery today? (10)
Companies get cheap workers and therefore they don't have to spend more money and they gain more profit |
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What is the benefit of slavery today? (10)
Americans and other countries pay less for commercial goods or restaurant food that endorse human trafficking |
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When did slavery begin? (11)
What is known is that in the ancient world, the Greek and Roman Empires, as well as the Indian and Chinese empires, all had slavery. It even existed BC. |
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When did slavery begin? (11)
In the mid 1400s European slave trading vessels began trading with Africa, this began Chattel Slavery |
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When does the majority of the population believe it ended? (12)
“Many people would assume that at the end of the 20th century the Anti-Slavery Society would be a mere footnote in the history books”. (Duke of Gloucester) The abolition of slavery does not mean that it ceased to exist. |
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When was slavery outlawed? (13)
The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. States "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." |
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When did the “jobs” of slaves change? (14)
Plantation slaves in the 1800's were called field hands: plant and pick cotton. House slaves worked as servants: laundry or making dinner. Others were trained craft workers like bricklayers, blacksmiths, carpenters, or cabinetmakers. Some worked in factories, others became construction workers on canals and railroads, dockworkers, office workers, riverboat pilots, and lumberjacks, or in mines. |
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When did the “jobs” of slaves change? (14)
Once slavery was outlawed, jobs changed somewhat. Modern slaves work in secret in forced labor (plantations, farms, factories, sweat shops, food industry), prostitution (brothels, sex shops, pornography), removal of organs, etc. |
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When did the modern slave come about? (15)
There are several arguments about when human trafficking could have started: African American slavery or forced labor of children during the 1700s. Human trafficking for sexual purposes was first legally recognized by the term 'white slavery'. |
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Where was slavery originated? (16)
From biblical times where it started off as a slave simply helping their masters tend animals and being treated as part of the family with good food and treatment |
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Where was slavery originated? (16)
The first African slaves in North America arrived in 1619 in the colony of Virginia then spread to the plantations |
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Where is slavery today? (17)
Everywhere in the world |
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Where does slavery affect the most? (18)
In Asian, European, Eastern, and South American countries are where victims are captured. The United States and United Kingdom (other areas around) are mostly where the victims are transported. But victims come from everywhere and are transported everywhere. |
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Where can slaves find salvation? (19)
There are many organizations that shelter victims of human trafficking and keep them safe, helping them recover (such as Human Trafficking Assistance Program) |
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Where can slaves find salvation? (19)
The government sends in police forces, detectives, etc. into places to rescue victims of human trafficking |
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What are there profits from slavery? (20)
Profits from trafficking are about $32 billion per year. |
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Why is slavery a problem? (21)
Innocent people are being abused, raped, murdered, worked to death, violated, and their freedom is being taken away |
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Why is slavery a problem? (21)
It violates the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which states and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 |
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Why is slavery a problem? (21)
Anyone can be a victim to human trafficking and therefore everyone is in danger |
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Why do people want slaves? (22)
When individuals are willing to buy commercial sex, they create a market and make it profitable for traffickers to sexually exploit children and adults |
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Why do people want slaves? (22)
When consumers are willing to buy goods and services from industries that rely on forced labor, they create a profit incentive for labor traffickers to maximize revenue with minimal production costs |
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Why do people want slaves? (22)
They can work for cheap or no pay at all and since the economy is challenging and prices are rising, they are willing to traffic humans to make a living |
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Why was slavery abolished? (23)
Economic reason: during the 1770s the West Indies became less important for producing sugar |
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Why was slavery abolished? (23)
Actions of the Plantation Slaves: went on strike or demanded wages for their work, would burn down the crops and houses of their owners, many ran away or tried |
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Why was slavery abolished? (23)
Slaves wrote bios and these were read, making people see how awful the treatment of the slaves was and the actions of white working class people helped end it |
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Why was slavery a mark of high class or wealth? (24)
Slaves were expensive and therefore in order to purchase them, you had to be wealthy or well-off |
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Why are people ignorant to slavery (believe it doesn’t exist anymore)? (25)
Awareness: they are not well informed because the media does not choose to bring light on the subject of Human Trafficking and the topic is pushed underground |
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Why are people ignorant to slavery (believe it doesn’t exist anymore)? (25)
Abolished: They believe that since the 13th Amendment made slavery illegal, that it is just a thing of the past and does not exist anymore |
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Why are people ignorant to slavery (believe it doesn’t exist anymore)? (25)
Denial: They do not want to believe that it actually exists because it is such a sickening crime |
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Why does slavery still exist? (26)
Slavery is an inhuman perversion of a simple economic principle: the best way to maximize profits is by minimizing the cost of labor |
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Why does slavery still exist? (26)
Demand for cheap goods and services has created a vast, largely invisible market for easily replenished supplies of men, women and children who are forced to work against their will, for little or no pay, and under constant threat of violence or intimidation |
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Why does slavery still exist? (26)
Racial, ethnic, and discriminatory oppression on people |
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How does slavery affect society today? (27)
The products that are made by those in slavery reach our stores and our homes, therefore we are supporting business and consumers who endorse slavery |
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How does slavery affect society today? (27)
People we know in our own community could be forced into slavery (family, neighbors, friends, etc.) |
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How does slavery affect society today? (27)
It projects the idea of inequality and that not all people are created equal, demonstrating discrimination, hatred, injustices and taking away freedom |
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How did slavery affect society then? (28)
Benefited the land, farm, and plantation owners because they had workers that they didn't have to pay; citizens could buy a lot of goods |
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How did slavery affect society then? (28)
It was a common thing that everyone accepted, no one thought that it was wrong to have slaves until the North began to abolish it |
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How did slavery affect society then? (28)
Once the North began to have no need for cheap labor they began to abolish slavery which caused the South the rebel and begin the Civil War |
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How did slaves rebel against their captors? (29)
Running away from their captors (for a short time or even managing to escape permanently). Many ran to the North when they began to outlaw slavery. Others always slowed down work to get back at their captors. |
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How do slaves rebel against their captors? (29)
They could try to run away, with the risk of being caught and either killed or punished. Sometimes try to alert authorities if they ever get the chance but this is very rare |
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How was slavery fought? (30)
Citizens and slaves helped slaves escape, specifically The Underground Railroad. Helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada -- consisted of many individuals -- many whites but predominantly black -- who knew only of the local efforts to aid fugitives and not of the overall operation; moved hundreds of slaves northward each year -- according to one estimate, the South lost 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1850 |
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How was slavery fought? (30)
Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln was elected President and ran an anti-slavery platform. The war was fought between the North and South to end slavery. |
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How is slavery fought? (31)
Raising public awareness on the issue (new exhibition/museum called invisible: Slavery Today, media, documentaries, organizations, fundraisers, charities) which gets citizens to be aware of what is happening and want to fund agencies or go out and help |
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How is slavery fought? (31)
Anti-slavery and counter-trafficking organizations who go into places and save trafficking victims, and later providing them with shelter and a rehab center (different organizations collaborate with them on awareness building and on advocating strong laws at the federal, state and local levels) |
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What was the cost of slaves? (32)
About $40,000 (in today's money), but price ranged depending on slave |
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What is the cost of slaves? (32)
Slaves come cheaper then ever before ($90 rate for a slave), but priced ranges depending on slave |
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What types of slavery exist today? (33)
Human/Child Sex Trafficking/Prostitution, Debt Slavery, Forced labor, Child Labor, Organ Trade |
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