Monthly review: Ending Slavery

Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves by Kevin Bales is a book about the modern slavery happening around the world and how we can end slavery.

Kevin Bales's purpose in writing things book is to reach out to people that are still so ignorant about slavery and the ones that think that slavery isn't happening anymore. He wants to end slavery, We all do. He tells us that one alone can help. He also explains how there are antislavery movements around the world. He wants us to really think about how slavery is affecting the world. The things we have bought might have came from slaves' work. They don't get paid with anything, but we pay their slaveholders tons of money for those products

There are people around the world who are helping free slaves. Some of them are even former slaves. They have been through the slavery and don't want to see others suffer the way they did.

There are lots of ways that even we can help. We can donate. This website Shows you how much it costs for what. You can also donate throught this site. The lowest is $14, which is for school books, a uniform, and a satchel. This money could pay for a former slave to go to school. We spend at least $14 every week anyways, why not give it up for a good cause. Who said you had to do it all by yourself? You can split it or even ask around, like we did for Haiti. If every kid donates at least a dollar, we probably could have more than 2,000 dollars. That could help in lots of ways.

Without the wasting moral disease of slavery, our ethical dilemas diminish as well. Today many of us are troubled by the ugly fact of slavery in our lives. But imagine never haing that pang of doubt when you buy something you like, never having to wonder "whose freedom was stolen to make this?" Imagine never having to spoil the enjoyment of that selicious truffle in your mouth with the thought of slave chile who harvested cocoa for your treat. Ending slavery won't end crime, but it will mean things will be stiolen, not lives.

My friend doesnt eat anything made by Hershey's because she told me that there were child labor. But there are people that don't care if there is child labor going on. They don't give a shit and not thin twice about it. I think that if enough people try to stand up for this, maybe a huge number of people don't buy hershey's, then maybe they are going to have to do something about it.

In lots of places, young girls are tricked into sex slavery. In places like Nepal and India. In Nepal, since there are families living in poverty, if a person comes and offers a kid a job to their parents, lying about working in the city. If one person can work in a family, then that could mean that they can have a little more money, which means have food or even have an education. Before leaving, the slave trafficker might give the family a little money, making up excuses about how they pay you in the beginning of their working period then more later. Then, before you know it. they have just sold their child into slavery.

Bales states that lack of education and poverty is one of the main causes of slavery. It is becuase if you are very poor and living in poverty, you cannot send your child to school, therefore they will not be educated. If they arent educated, they will not understand that there are people out there that do things like human trafficking. When you are in poverty, you don't have anything of your own. When you are a slave, you have protection, and you get to eat a little to survive, so many slaves that were freed went back to their slave masters.

There are lots of good in the world, too. There are people helping slaves out, and freeing them. There has always been good guys from the start. There was the Underground Railroad, where slaves escaped from.

Yesterday, when I was doing my research paper for my history, when I can came across this website. The title was the first thing that caught my eyes. As I read this, I realized Anuradha Koirala a true hero. She is helping out so many girls and she never says no to anyone. They have their own website.

She and a bunch of other survivors have loads to do in their parts. They go around villages to villages to educate the villagers about sex trafficking. They have lots of people on the border of Nepali/India. They are patroling and they rescue on average of 4 nepali girls a day. Four girls a day! That means they save on average of 1460 a whole year! Every life is precious.

Kevin Bales is lives Washington DC. Kevin Bales is President of Free the Slaves, the US sister organization of Anti-Slavery International (the world’s oldest human rights organization), and Professor of Sociology at Roehampton University in London. I got this information from here. He wrote this book after he wrote Disposable People , which is also about mordern slavery. That book is about the slavery happening, while this book is about how we can end slavery once and for all.

This book is amazing. It gives you the inside story first-hand. There are stories about the slaves and even the Ashrams. Around the world, There are millions of slavery still hapening. We need to free those slaves. No one should be held against their will. No one should have to suffer. Some parts of the slavery I am familiar with, like girls sold into prostitute, and sex slavery, becuase growing up, everywhere, we were warned about this. There were tv shows and movies telling us not to leave with a stranger and stuff.