Slavery: the term for forced labor amongst people without pay. You would think that this word wouldn't mean much today. The number of slaves in the world has weakened throughout the past. Most European countries have abolished slavery amongst children and adults alike, of all race and gender. Same in the US. Slavery is illegal throughout most of the world anyway. Though, just because something is illegal doesn't mean that people don’t do it. Trafficking individuals, or illegally selling people, still happens today. Slavery is not as prevalent as it was in the past, but does it mean we shouldn’t worry about it? So, what is my point? Well, you have probably heard of child labour in middle eastern countries and other developing nations, right? It’s no small topic of today. On the surface of it all, you hear that in middle eastern countries, say, Sudan or Pakistan, there are children being forced to work in factories or another type of facility making carpets, bricks or other things for market. Skim and scan, that’s about what you hear. That’s what I knew.
Afterwards was a completely different story. Go a little deeper, and you hear that young, innocent children in these developing nations are sent to be slaves to “pay off their parents debt...”. But answer this in your head… Is that debt …show more content…
They might say, ‘Well, they hurt another worker...’ or, ‘Oh, they broke a loom...’. But is that true? Or is it all, a lie? These people; the “all and powerful masters”, Will do anything to protect their profits. Francesco D’Adamo said it well in his novel on the accounts of Iqbal, child laborer, quoting what Iqbal’s Master, Hussain Khan had done, saying “Hussain stuck his hand into the wide band he wore around his waist and brought out a large wad of banknotes. He counted out a small pile and handed it to the policemen.” These people that run these madhouses are using bribery to get out of being
Afterwards was a completely different story. Go a little deeper, and you hear that young, innocent children in these developing nations are sent to be slaves to “pay off their parents debt...”. But answer this in your head… Is that debt …show more content…
They might say, ‘Well, they hurt another worker...’ or, ‘Oh, they broke a loom...’. But is that true? Or is it all, a lie? These people; the “all and powerful masters”, Will do anything to protect their profits. Francesco D’Adamo said it well in his novel on the accounts of Iqbal, child laborer, quoting what Iqbal’s Master, Hussain Khan had done, saying “Hussain stuck his hand into the wide band he wore around his waist and brought out a large wad of banknotes. He counted out a small pile and handed it to the policemen.” These people that run these madhouses are using bribery to get out of being