Child Slavery In Kindred

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“Kindred” is about a girl named Dana who is transported back to the 18th century to save Rufus, her ancestor from any trouble. The reason she goes back in time is so she can keep Rufus alive until he and Alice can have a child named Hagar who will then start the family line so Dana can be born in the present. As Dana goes back in time she tries to teach Rufus to treat everyone equally and be a kind person.
Our main issue that is present in our novel is mostly slavery which branches off to racism. Slavery is when a person is being abducted, bought, mistreated and controlled by their owners. Their Owners harm them physically and mentally by abusing them to do certain tasks.
An example of child slavery that takes place in a democratic country is about a boy named Iqbal Masih, who lived in Pakistan and
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They are usually girls who get sold by their parents to the owners of prostitution.
Forced or Servile Marriage—usually a woman or girl can be sold by her family to repay their depths or get forcefully marriage without her consent.
Slavery in the U.S got prohibited at the end of the civil war and took 115 more years in the rest of the world. “A contemporary Manifestation of slavery was never released to the public”, discussed Joel Brinkley in New York Times article. The job description for slavery usually included that you get paid below living wage, no sick or holiday leave, work for 20 hours a day and 7 days a week, and you can be at the age of 4 and above. But slavery still exists in the U.S today. A girl named Rose Iftony from Sierra Leonne was the slave of middle eastern couple who told her that she would have a paying job once she arrive to the U.S. But when she arrived she did not get paid and was forced to work for long hours. She got controlled by the couple because they threatened her to send her back to the government for not having a work

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