Students with One Voice
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exposing slavery student to studentAcross the country students are standing as One Voice against slavery. These students are creating opportunities to bring awareness and mobilize other students about issues of the modern day slave trade. You will find information compiled by students, papers, events, and other efforts that help educate their peers. If you would like share your research, ideas, campus events, and any other abolition effort, please send it to us so we can add to the VOICE..
Classroom Efforts
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St Helens High School:
A Sex and Chocolate Forum
Read about this event soon
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Kyra:
10th grader
Forced Slavery or Beneficial Business
Typically students are taught in-depth about the slave trade during some point in their education. They learn about the abolitionists and the long fight to end slavery. What is not taught in school is that slavery is still very prevalent today. According to the U.S. State department around 27 million people are currently slaves. That number is greater than the amount of slaves taken from Africa throughout three-hundred years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade (Hendricks 20). Schools may choose not to teach this because they deem it irrelevant or maybe the schools themselves are unaware of these statistics. People like DJ, in India, and Thaldee, in Thailand, cannot just pretend it is nonexistent, because they have lived through the torture and have to face remembering their past everyday. DJ and Thaldee were both only fourteen when sold into slavery (Hendricks 19; Stearman 38). DJ said she “witnessed horrible things, from people being tortured and murdered to seeing children locked in boxes, all in an effort to keep the slaves in line” (19).
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