{"id":174,"date":"2003-08-29T01:09:01","date_gmt":"2003-08-29T05:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/08\/21st_century_slaves\/"},"modified":"2003-08-29T01:09:01","modified_gmt":"2003-08-29T05:09:01","slug":"21st_century_slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/29\/21st_century_slaves\/","title":{"rendered":"21st Century Slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

This issue of National Geographic looks like a must read for the story on modern day slavery<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nThere are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The modern commerce in humans rivals illegal drug trafficking in its global reach—and in the destruction of lives.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via (Anil’s Daily Links<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This issue of National Geographic looks like a must read for the story on modern day slavery: There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The modern commerce in humans rivals illegal drug trafficking in its global reach—and in the destruction of lives. via (Anil’s… Continue reading 21st Century Slaves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":387,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/05\/mississippi_in_africa\/","url_meta":{"origin":174,"position":0},"title":"Mississippi in Africa","date":"September 5, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another book that caught my eye. I saw 'Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today' in a book store yesterday. After a quick glance I knew I had to read it. (There are NEW copies available in Amazon's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":264,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/05\/a_haitian_history_lesson\/","url_meta":{"origin":174,"position":1},"title":"A Haitian History Lesson","date":"January 5, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an excellent article by Randall Robinson about Haiti and its fight for independence 200 years ago. Some highlights: St. Domingue (as Haiti was then called by the French) was at that time the most prosperous colonial possession of any European power. It created far greater wealth for France than\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Race"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":343,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/17\/journals_of_2_ex-slaves_draw_vivid_portraits\/","url_meta":{"origin":174,"position":2},"title":"Journals of 2 Ex-Slaves Draw Vivid Portraits","date":"June 17, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"If you haven't already done so, check out the New York Times' article about the soon to be published journals by two ex-slaves. (Link via Dana's Lincoln Didn't Free The Slaves post) As usual, I've 'emancipated' the text below. 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But he fails to even mention the centuries of free labor through slavery that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Current Events"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":462,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/23\/keep_an_ear_out_for_the_rebirth\/","url_meta":{"origin":174,"position":4},"title":"Keep an Ear Out for ‘The Rebirth’","date":"March 23, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Ink Blotter has some streams of a few tracks by a new group out of L.A. called 'The Rebirth'. As Nikki says, they sound like a modern-day Brand New Heavies. I'll have to pick up this CD once it drops.","rel":"","context":"In "Music"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":73,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/11\/history_detectives\/","url_meta":{"origin":174,"position":5},"title":"History Detectives","date":"July 11, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"PBS has a new series entitled History Detectives that looks pretty interesting. You history buffs may want to check it out. History Detectives is devoted to solving historical mysteries, searching out the true facts (and falsehoods) behind local folklore, family legends and interesting objects. Using traditional investigative techniques, modern technologies,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Entertainment"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}