40 Million People Today Are Enslaved

According to anti-slavery there are over 3 times as many slaves today than were shipped transatlantic between the 15th and 19th centuries(13 million). There are 40 million people enslaved today, that’s what protestors should be marching against, 40 million slaves in this world right now- this is now not the past, it’s happening now, that’s getting close to the population of Spain which stands at 46 million people.

These 40 million poor souls include 1 in 4 children - so 10 million children are enslaved today, this also includes forced child marriage, forced labour and violence towards them, yes they die.

You see why this matters, it’s happening now. No one can help lost souls to slavery, we can remember them (rightly so) and should be using their accounts of slavery and modern day slavery to wipe it out for good. Unfortunately, while the world concentrates on past history (I’m not talking about protests of deaths at police hands because it’s gone beyond that) it will carry on because we are not seeing the cause being fought for modern day slaves, we live in an uncaring world.

https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/modern-slavery/

The world just hasn’t woken up, the eyes of the world are not open.

Child slavery UK - it’s closer than you think...

https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/slavery-uk/

It’s on our doorsteps - UK, USA, you name the country - it’s there.

I personally think people can learn a lot more from history rather than try to change it. Its wrong to de face Churchill’s statue and shame him and hide him (Sadik Khans orders I believe)when he not only did so much for our country, just look at what he took on, the mighty power of Germany, the USA wasn’t even in the war at that point. Also we need to remember that the world was a very different place in history to the world we know today and what is wrong today was deemed perfectly ok then. I think the people need to be carful here, is it fair to judge some historical figures in today’s world, what was legal and ok then isn’t today so they weren’t breaking the law, it was a very different world, life was hard. It was a terribly hard life for the workers in those days, if you pinched 200 years ago you could be hanged for taking a coat, whipped for stealing food or hanged, you could be deported to Australia for stealing, years into forced hard labour, today people would take pity on someone for stealing food to survive. Those days people were paid pittance and often starved. It was worse for the disabled and people in those wretched cruel work houses and asylums, just imagine if you were sent to the asylum, you didn’t have to be mad to go there. I just believe we should be using history not trying to eradicate it or hide it away in a museum, that dark side of history can and could be put to really good use if only people would think more about it instead of sabotaging. If you’re going to start to eradicate history then we might as well tear everything up and start again, unfortunately we would have no identity, no way of improving things, nothing to base and compare today’s civilised standards upon and take society forward into the future. Tweet