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Slavery SEE ALSO
▸ ▸ Africa p.12
▸ ▸ Ancient Rome
Slaves are people who have had their rights taken away and p.20
are treated like property. They may have been captured in ▸ ▸ Law p.145
war, owe more money than they can pay, or have parents ▸ ▸ North America
who are slaves. Slavery has been used throughout history, p.184
but today it is against the law in every country in the world. ▸ ▸ Ships p.224
▸ ▸ Trade p.257
Slave labor
In the early 1800s, big farms called plantations
in the US used slave labor to pick cotton, cut
sugar cane, and perform other tasks. Slaves
worked long hours in very bad conditions.
Slavery today
Though slavery is now illegal, more than 20
million people are still kept as slaves, mostly
in Asia and Africa. Groups around the world
are working to solve this terrible problem.
The slave trade People were often
To keep American plantations supplied with chained and packed
workers, ships carried slaves from Africa to tightly into slave ships.
America. Between 1450 and 1850, 12 million
people crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
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