Slavery was a dominant phenomenon of antiquity. Gradually it has declined in the modern world. The blessings of modern moral attitudes and virtues were instrumental for these structural changes. Recently, child trafficking, especially female child trafficking has become a painful reality in Bangladesh. This child trafficking has been occurring internally and also across the border to India, Pakistan, Malaysia and many Middle Eastern countries. The rate of growth of this trafficking has been increasing alarmingly in this country. Every year several hundred (under the age of eighteen) children are being trafficked abroad. These trafficked children are adapting to a new life style which is different from the life style had they lived in their normal (life style which they supposed to follo...
... societies, a slave was considered merely chattel, a piece of property (New Standard Encyclopedia: 4...
North American tribes sometimes held captives, but captives often were able to become free persons with the passage of time and fetuses were never condemned to servitude (until certain "civilized" tribes, largely controlled by mixedblood planters, adopted the "slave codes" of their white neighbors). Recently the governors of Virginia and Mississippi reportedly announced their support of "Confederate History Week." They chose not to mention the unborn captives. They chose to be silent about the mothers, fathers, and children, born and unborn, condemned while innocent. They chose not to offer help to the descendants of the victims of an outrageous blot upon human morals.
One of the most obscene aspects of slavery as practiced by the slave system in North America ... unborn fetus were treated as saleable "chattel" (property) in the white slave states. It is incre...
When [William Wilberforce] first raised his voice in the House of Commons for the cause of abolition in May 1789, he spoke for 3.5 hours. Yet the absence of partisanship must have taken his colleagues by surprise. "I mean not to accuse anyone," he insisted, "but take the shame upon myself, in common indeed with the whole Parliament of Britain, for having suffered this horrid trade to be carried on under their authority. Most important, he was unafraid to invoke the Gospel to challenge the consciences of slavers and their supporters in Parliament. In his Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, published in January 1807, Wilberforce placed the brutish facts of human trafficking against the backdrop of Christian compassion and divine justice. "We must believe," he warned, "that a cont...
... struggles of the 19th century to abolish slavery, Abraham Lincoln remains the mythic American champ... supplies of sugar and tobacco kept the chattel machine running. Historians estimate that in Liver...
To add to the misery, the severest drought in living memory hit the country during this period. An estimated 1 million people were forced to leave their villages. These internally displaced persons (IDPs) flooded into Kabul and other cities where services were already struggling beyond the breaking point. In September 1998 a reported 100,000 persons fleeing from renewed fighting in the Shamali valley just to the north of Kabul swamped the city. The population of Kabul, which was 750,000 in 1977, rose to 1.78 million in 1999 (Rodey, 2000:1). Many headed for Pakistan as the ebb and flow of refugees continued to follow events in Afghanistan. Scores of old-time Kabul residents joined them. Nevertheless, when heavy fighting between the Taliban and the rival Northern Alliance intensified, fam...
... describe rural women as ignorant chattel with no egos, living lives of unmitigated drudgery... labour that amounts almost to indentured slavery existed in carpet and brick factories, in car repa...
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