Today is Britain's first anti-slavery day. But didn't we abolish slavery in 1807?
Our local massage parlour has an iron gate across its entrance. It could be to keep people out. Or it could be to keep women in.
A few years back it was busted. Out of the building came a string of young women trafficked from Eastern Europe.
It now has a new name and a new owner. This morning as we made our way to church we saw two young, pinched faced women, waiting in the cold outside. They may not be slaves but to us they looked like prisoners.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
1 comments:
Ohio, where I am living now, was an important point on "the underground railroad" - a series of volunteer cell groups that escorted slaves from one point to another until they could reach Canada and freedom.
Because we are so close to Canada, a fairly central to a large portion of the US population, we are now the largest State for human trafficking. Those who work on behalf of the women and children being trafficked take their lives in their hands. And slaves today are worth less than slaves in the 19th century on a real basis, so the handlers are not worried about killing them if necessary.
Experts believe that there is more slavery in the world today than there was in the 19th century.
Post a Comment