For centuries there have been legal fights against slavery to abolish it, unfortunately, slavery still lives on today because the fights to stop slavery have failed. Therefore, slavery continues. According to the text, The Dark Side of Chocolate, “In a previous guest lecture, Kellie Carter Jackson, Harvard College Fellow in African and African American Studies, had told the class that the connection between chocolate and slavery extended even beyond cacao, all the way back to slaves working on sugar plantations as early as the late 1600s,” (Doody). This quote reveals that since the 1600s, slavery has occurred for close to 500 years. Unfortunately, people have not been able to end slavery on
For centuries there have been legal fights against slavery to abolish it, unfortunately, slavery still lives on today because the fights to stop slavery have failed. Therefore, slavery continues. According to the text, The Dark Side of Chocolate, “In a previous guest lecture, Kellie Carter Jackson, Harvard College Fellow in African and African American Studies, had told the class that the connection between chocolate and slavery extended even beyond cacao, all the way back to slaves working on sugar plantations as early as the late 1600s,” (Doody). This quote reveals that since the 1600s, slavery has occurred for close to 500 years. Unfortunately, people have not been able to end slavery on