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>> The world hasn't seen slavery to the level of the transatlantic slave trade since the transatlantic slave trade By any measure, this is untrue. "In 2019, a
by rendall 6y ago
>> The world hasn't seen slavery to the level of the transatlantic slave trade since the transatlantic slave trade
By any measure, this is untrue.
"In 2019, approximately 40 million people, of whom 26 percent were children, were enslaved throughout the world despite it being illegal. In the modern world, more than 50 percent of enslaved people provide forced labor, usually in the factories and sweatshops of the private sector of a country's economy."
40. Million.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-trafficking-persons-one-in-200 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-...