We think of slavery as a practice of the past, an image from Roman colonies or 18th-century American plantations, but the practice of enslaving human beings as property still exists. There are 29.8 million people living as slaves right now, according to a comprehensive new report issued by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation.
This is not some softened, by-modern-standards definition of slavery. These 30 million people are living as forced laborers, forced prostitutes, child soldiers, child brides in forced marriages and, in all ways that matter, as pieces of property, chattel in the servitude of absolute ownership. Walk Free investigated 162 countries and found slaves in every single one. But the practice is far worse in some countries than others.
We should ask those kids to list some good reasons for this...
I'd like to ask you why you're so much angrier about slavery that happened 300 years ago than you are about slavery today.
who said i'm not angry about this?
Your lack of ever mentioning it, for one.
why would i mention it in this topic? Nice deflection. Slavery going on today is just as bad as slavery that happened years ago. there are no GOOD reasons for either. Your argument implies that we need to teach kids that there were maybe some good reasons for slavery years ago...so since you think there were good reasons for slavery 300 years ago, i ask, do you think there are good reasons for the slavery you brought up, going on today? ---