Modern Slavery
Lehman, David Lehman 1
English 2 Honors Gifted
14 May 2007
Mrs. K. Doyle
Modern Slavery
Our sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln spoke the following words in the Emancipation Proclamation, which were meant to free all slaves in the United States from bondage in 1863.
“That on the first day of January A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the
United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and Naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no acts or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.”
It is amazing to think that slavery can be practiced in today’s society. In fact there are more than twenty million people working as slaves in......
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