HUMR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Child Slavery, Master Race, Restavek
21 Nov 2017
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Shortage of potential slaves (imported from africa) Surplus of potential slaves (anyone can become a slave), 40 million modern slaves according to un report 2017, probably much higher. Enslaved today face threat of violence and economic exploitation. Cattle slavery: someone born or sold into slavery and still in slavery. Intergenerational: family is indebted. children are given over to master to work all. Debt bondage: working to pay off debt their lives. common in south asia. Contract slavery: people lured by a promise of a good job, sign a contract but end up. War slavery: defeated armies population is taken as slaves. Children as domestic servants: not legally owned but controlled through violence. In paris alone there are at least 3k documented child slaves working as domestic servants. many in caribbean and western africa. Rare today. found in africa and asia. Africans imported against their will to north america portrayed as infantile little sambo.
