Modern Slavery

Modern Slavery: Answer each of the questions under the numbered link.

1.http://www.antislavery.org/english/slavery_today/bonded_labour/default.aspx

·         What is modern slavery? 
How is this similar to slavery that existed through the Atlantic Circuit as well as various areas of China, the Roman Empire, India, Russia etc.? (see red sidebar on left)

2.http://www.antislavery.org/english/slavery_today/bonded_labour/default.aspx

·         Bonded Labor: What is it? Where is this found? (see red sidebar on left)

·         Read the 3 stories of bonded labor: 

http://www.antislavery.org/english/slavery_today/bonded_labour/stories_of_bonded_labourers.aspx

·         Do you think the history of the caste system in India played a role in this type of bonded labour? Explain

3.http://www.antislavery.org/english/slavery_today/child_slavery/default.aspx

·         Describe how the issues of child slavery are a growing and serious problem?

·         Child slavery is often rationalized as a way of bringing money into a region. How are the long-term consequences to child labor disastrous, economically, for a country?

4.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etiMlUF4UEg (Watch the film…winner of best documentary short – 2016) The Girl in the Rive, A Price of Forgiveness (NOTE: Since the initial post, this movie has been moved off of youtube, try searching by title)

·         Do you consider a forced marriage a type of slavery? Explain

·         Looking through the lens of history, why are women and children much more prone to be victims of slavery?

·         What cultural and economic pulls exist for the main character, in regards to her decision to “forgive”?

·         What do you think about the decision made to “forgive” and the father’s response to his violent actions towards his daughter?