Modern Day Slavery
I was in complete and utter shock when I began to read Disposable People. The heart-wrenching tale of Seba, a newly freed slave, shook my understanding of people in today's society, as well as their interactions between each other. I sat in silence as I read Seba's story. "There they [Seba's French mistress and husband] stripped me naked, tied my hands behind my back, and began to whip me with a wire attached to a broomstick (Bales 2)." I tried to grasp the magnitude of the situation. I tried unsuccessfully to tell myself that this couldn't happen in modern times, especially in a city such as Paris. How could this be happening? In the following pages of Kevin Bale's shocking account of the rampant problem of modern day slavery, I learned of more gruesome details of this horrific crime against humanity, such as the different types of slavery, as well as his best estimate of the number of people still enslaved throughout the world, an appalling 27 million.
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