Modern Day Slavery
posted by: Joan Vine | on: Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 17:32
Still in Chains...
Now 98 years old ex-president of America Jimmy Carter once wrote a book entitled ‘A call to Action’: Women, Religion, Violence and Power. He claimed that in the United States human slavery was just as great as it had been in the 18th and 19th century, claiming that between two and three hundred girls a month were being sold into sexual slavery in his home state of Georgia. And after researching the state of Modern Slavery today it defies belief that it is still happening here and now, rather than long ago and far away. Over two hundred years have passed since William Wilberforce and his fellow abolitionists, after twenty-six years of campaigning, forced the Slave Trade Act of 1807 through parliament which made slavery illegal in Britain. Wilberforce continued to lobby for a complete abolition of slavery and seven years after his resignation from Parliament, on the grounds of ill health, the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was passed which abolished slavery throughout the British Empire. Wilberforce died just three days after he heard that the passage of the Act through Parliament was assured and I bring to mind Simeon’s plea ‘Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace’ Luke 2:29.
The Government’s strategy document sets out plans for co-ordinated action across government and law enforcement agencies, and the Modern Slavery Bill was passed through parliament some years ago now, however, although slavery is now illegal worldwide various estimates put the number of men, women and children still living in slavery today as anything between 20 and 35 million.
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