A very fine and troubling book about this is “What Slaveholders Think” by @achoifitzhttps://books.google.com/books/about/What_Slaveholders_Think.html?id=jI7fDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&gboemv=1 …
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I’ve been teaching, talking, and tweeting about this for years, but it’s worth repeating: the ongoing existence of real slavery in the world, today, doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Slavery (in various forms) is not just in the past. It should concern us all.pic.twitter.com/91aAxVB1HN
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On the forms of modern slavery around the world, see “Modern Slavery” by
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Chattel slavery persists in Mauritania, TODAY. But it’s so little discussed In a rare insight into the lives of the tens of thousands of people affected, photojournalist
@SeifKousmate spent a month photographing and interviewing current and former slaves.https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/08/the-unspeakable-truth-about-slavery-in-mauritania …Näytä tämä ketju -
"there are more slaves in world today than in 19th C. Yet because one’s political rivals cannot be delegitimized by being on wrong side of slavery, few care to be active abolitionists, compared to being, say, speech police." - John Tooby
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And this is work by
@lisakristine https://twitter.com/lisakristine/status/1263858552545988608?s=21 … Lets not stop with discussing slavery in our past, from 150 years ago. Let’s consider what we can do about its presence today. Otherwise, we are utterly intellectually inconsistent.https://twitter.com/lisakristine/status/1263858552545988608 …
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And let’s not forget the recent mass enslavement of Yezidi women and girls, by the many thousands, while the world watched. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/25/slaves-of-isis-the-long-walk-of-the-yazidi-women …
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And the plight of 800,000 in one kind of servitude in Russia:https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/video/2017/mar/31/were-taking-them-home-saving-russia-brick-slaves-video …
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Another case: proceedings in New Zealand condemn Samoan chief for modern enslavement:https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/asia/slavery-matamata-new-zealand-intl-hnk/index.html …
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Here is an older thread on modern slavery, with more links:https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/1118176269877702657?s=20 …
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A case of enslavement in modern Nigeria:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49869804 …
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An older thread via the indefatigable
@jenanmoussa on the ISIS abomination of sexual slavery, in the modern world, of Yezidi women: https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/893182653767319552 … And also this article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-yazidi-sex-slave-rape-tv-interview-video-ashraq-haji-hamid-a9229201.html …1/ When I was in Syria, ISIS women told me how Yazidi slaves had to endure virginity tests, rapes &jealous ISIS wives. Thread in English.
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More on the modern enslavement of the Yezidi women and girls while the world watched. It’s fine to revisit the slave trade of the past, but we must devote analogous attention to the slave trade of the present.https://twitter.com/Free_Yezidi/status/1422582300093583369 …
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Tens of millions of people are in slavery around the world, and lots of them live in your country per the 2018 Global Slavery Index, a detailed analysis of modern human trafficking and slavery from the Walk Free Foundation. https://howmuch.net/articles/modern-slavery-map-2018 … via
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Today, there are 40.3 million enslaved people on the planet. Today. And the locations of slaves are visible via satellite imagery. Via
@bigthink https://bigthink.com/amp/modern-slavery-uncovered-by-satellites-2629725300 …Näytä tämä ketju -
Here is a “ridiculous and deeply unjust 2018 ruling holding that people who were held as slave laborers by terrorist groups must be denied asylum in the United States, under a federal law barring applicants who provided ‘material support for terrorism.’” https://reason.com/volokh/2021/08/09/attorney-general-garland-should-reverse-an-egregious-legal-ruling-denying-asylum-to-refugees-fleeing-forced-labor-at-the-hands-of-terrorist-groups/?amp&__twitter_impression=true …
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