CRIM 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: North African Arabs, Debt Bondage, Automatic Firearm
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The ending of the american civil war in 1865 did not extinguish slavery. Slaves were seen as spoils of war, necessities in building an economy, supporting the colonial systems throughout the world. An estimated 27 million people are currently enslaved. There are more slaves now than all of the people stolen from africa before the civil war. The slave population is now greater than the population of canada and six times that of israel. In 1998, the international labor organization found an emergence of child slaver in the cocoa fields of the ivory coast, where 43 percent of the world"s cocoa comes from. Hershey"s and m&m mars were charged with complicity. In sudan, one automatic weapon could be traded for six or seven child slaves. A woman or child from the dinka tribe could be bought for 90 dollars in 1989.
