It takes place in homes and private farms. Last week, three men from the same family in the UK were jailed for forcing a man to do heavy labour for next to no money.
Michael Hughes, 46, was forced to work for the family for more than 20 years, doing building work and road laying. He said he was made to live in a 1.
And last month, a UK man was jailed for two years in the first case of a man holding his wife in domestic servitude. The wife was tortured, forced to do all the chores, and not allowed to leave home, prosecutors said. Image source, Getty Images. Many trafficking victims are forced to work on fishing boats. The BBC looks at five examples of modern slavery. The seafood industry.
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Becky Palmstrom investigated the murky world of human trafficking in Thailand's fishing industry. Cannabis factories and nail bars.
Image source, PA. Authorities have launched a new crackdown on the issue. Sexual slavery. Image source, Shandra Woworuntu. Shandra and three other trafficking victims near a brothel in Connecticut. Next, they were forced onto ships heading for the US. The journey across the Atlantic was known as the middle passage. Slave ships were overcrowded, and the ceilings were so low the enslaved people could not even stand up.
Men were chained together for the entire six-week journey. Many people died of illness or starvation. Once people reached America, they were sold to the highest bidder at an auction, as if they were objects. Truth: Only a little more than , captives, or percent, came to the United States. The majority of enslaved Africans went to Brazil, followed by the Caribbean.
They spent months or years recovering from the harsh realities of the Middle Passage. Once they were forcibly accustomed to slave labor, many were then brought to plantations on American soil. Popular culture is rich with references to years of oppression. There seems to be confusion between the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the institution of slavery, confusion only reinforced by the Bible, Genesis :.
The American part of the story lasted fewer than years. How, then, do we calculate the timeline of slavery in America? Africans first arrived in America in the late 16th century not as slaves but as explorers together with Spanish and Portuguese explorers.
As far as the institution of chattel slavery — the treatment of slaves as property — in the United States, if we use as the beginning and the 13th Amendment as its end, then it lasted years, not Truth : Roughly 25 percent of all Southerners owned slaves. The fact that one-quarter of the southern population were slaveholders is still shocking to many.
This truth brings historical insight to modern conversations about inequality and reparations. When it established statehood, the Lone Star State had a shorter period of Anglo-American chattel slavery than other southern states — only to — because Spain and Mexico had occupied the region for almost one-half of the 19th century with policies that either abolished or limited slavery.
Still, the number of people impacted by wealth and income inequality is staggering. By , the Texas enslaved population was ,, but slaveholders represented 27 percent of the population, and controlled 68 percent of the government positions and 73 percent of the wealth.
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