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Friday, November 12, 2010


The definition of slavery in the video states “ slavery: force to work without pay under the threat of violence and unable to walk away. People are threatened to work without pay and if they don’t they are beaten and possibly made an example of. So that anyone else who wants to stand against this will be treated the same way.
Men and woman who don’t have money to take care of there children go to a person who ask you want a job? So they go with them if that means anyway they can take care of their family. And when they go with that trusted person that says they can provide money for working hands sells them into slavery. Far away form their families they wanted to protect.

People who are kidnapped in to slavery are people who don’t have jobs of their own. They need to take care of there children or mother or sister. So they do what they can they will risk their own health for someone else’s. It can even happen to children. They can be promised money for there parents or promised an education. So they go with that stranger who uses them for money.

They difference now is that people don’t cost as much anymore they cost way less. In the film he compare the consumption of people with the consumption of plastic cups. Dispensable. People aren’t worth as much which makes buying simpler.

If we save those slaves. Not just get them away from the bad people and give them something to eat. But free them give them responsibility, encourage them then they will become “unslaveable” and in doing that their community will grow and flourish. They can save others. They can be the bright light that saves others from slavery.

Americas "botched emancipation” was when slaves were freed from the slave owners in America. But they weren’t really free. They were not given an education, the right to vote, or anything that the people who could claim the word American could get. They just could work for pay. So they still had to fight for the rights that “Americans” had. Which has created a huge rift in America’s history and will most likely continue in America’s future.

Of cores any slavery is bad including this one. But seeing the scars on the kids back or the kids who had to walk up a mountain caring rocks was painful but the one thing out of the whole film that made my stomach turn flips was when I found out that all this could have been gone by now. This doesn’t even need to exist because American alone could change this. The fact that all we need to do is use the money we use on snacks in a year could change this whole thing around. We are in a recession. Money doesn’t come cheap and knowing that we can still free millions of people, hearing that made me feel so sick. Why hasn’t this been changed already? Freedom looks so wonderful but why is it talking so long to happen?
The video said the can end it with intellectual power.

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