Slavery Today
December 22, 2008 by Tracee Sioux
Filed under Parenting
So my husband sent me this story, A World Enslaved,by E. Benjamin Skinner about how you can buy a person for $50 five hours away from New York City in Haiti. The article goes into great detail about how many children, girls, women, men are in slavery today. Both for sex and for domestic and agricultural labor. There are more slaves now than in the entire history of the world.
What are we supposed to do about it? I asked him. The story goes into this whole futile effort the United States has been trying to pass more laws. More laws haven’t reduced the number of slaves.
How many people are suffering from infertility and don’t have $20,000 for an expensive adoption?
The story says the human trafficker will give you adoption papers for your $50 if you want to bring them back to the United States. He said it like it wasn’t the first time someone had asked. Which is disturbing if you think about it for too long. How many Americans are keeping secret slaves?
During the Abolitionist Movement of the Unites States didn’t some people buy slaves with the intention of freeing them?
For $50 we could buy the children and bring them back to the United States and raise them as cherished sons and daughters. For $50 you could buy another human being United States Citizenship, liberty, freedom and love.
The only down-side is that if you get busted you lose your own liberty and go to jail.
It’s so disturbing..The only clear way I can see to “help” is to help charities that address the problem of poverty. People don’t sell their children..or lose track of them through phony ads for work, when they aren’t in abject poverty.
We give monthly to World Vision – and it has a specific place you can designate your gift to help girls who have been entrapped in sexual slavery – it helps them w/ counseling, medical care (most end up w/ HIV/AIDS) and teaches them a trade.
But I think any charity that helps reduce abject poverty around the world is helping this problem. I looked specifically for one online that helps – not just w/ immediate necessities like food and water – but also w/ long-term ways to sustain life..farm animals – farming skills – deep, clean wells, – education – etc.
That’s a good idea That Girl.
I was also telling my husband – why don’t we just donate money to pay off the debts of those “indentured servant” slaves? A debt of $100 may be insurmountable for them – but, for us it’s doable. Then we can just buy their freedom from Garg the evil slave owner.
Of course, they’d have no way to earn an income and then he’d loan them money again. So I guess your plan is better than my own.