We think it was a terrible
thing that haunted the world
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ages ago. We think modern
civilization is way beyond.
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And yet the incredible fact
is this, there are more slaves
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in the world today than
any other time in history.
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Why is human slavery
still such and issue?
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And what can we do
to finally eliminate it?
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This Magnolia plantation
near Charleston, South Carolina
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is one of those places
people love to visit in the
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American South, it's a
beautiful plantation which
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embodies elevated antebellum
culture that's in southern world
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before Americas Civil War.
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People still like to
wander through these fields
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where cotton, tobacco, and
many other crops flourished.
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They liked to visit this mansion
where classy banquets and
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social gatherings brought
in those lovely southern bells
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in their elegant gown.
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This is in fact the kind of
setting for one of the biggest
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movies in history,
Gone with the Wind.
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But what's ironic is
this, a beautiful plantation
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also tells us why slavery
is still a problem today.
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It suggests why we
haven't eliminated that
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barbaric practice.
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The impact of slavery on the
Southern states was very huge
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and very instrumental
because the south was predicated
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on slavery, they were predicated
on the fact that they had
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in-slave labor, the
south was very agricultural.
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So without slavery, the
south never would have existed
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it wouldn't have functioned
like the north, it had a lot
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of industry. So slavery actually
was the foundation of the south.
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Alexander Stephens who
became the vice president of the
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Confederacy after 1861
wrote a document and made a
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famous speech where he talked
about the absolute right of
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each individual to determine
who would be free and who
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would be enslaved and then
he went on to delineate the fact
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that without slavery the south
would economically not be able
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to compete with
the rest of the world.
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And he felt that in
owning human beings it would be
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just like owning a piece of
industrial equipment right now.
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He had the absolute right,
he and his neighbors had the
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absolute right to own
people of African descent,
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to own native Americans to own
anyone who was not Anglo-Saxon
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and to exploit
them for free labor.
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The southern states are very
lucky to give up slavery because
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all their money was tied up
in the institution of slavery.
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Their money was mainly used
to buy land and to buy slaves
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so they were able to buy
and borrow against the slaves
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that they own. They own the
people here and they used them
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as collateral to
maintain their wealth.
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Slavery was why
America prospered in the south,
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slavery was the essential
component of its economy.
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These plantations would
never have grown so big,
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these mansions so high if
it hadn't been for all those
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slaves. Cotton would have never
become such a profitable and
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widely crop if it weren't for
all those people laboring for
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free. Now southerners in
the 1800s weren't exactly
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uncivilized, they weren't
barbarians, they lived in nice
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homes like this magnolia
plantation house in Charleston.
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Many regarded themselves as
a part of America's elevated
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culture. Many regarded
them- selves as Christians.
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But the economics of their
world compelled them to keep
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slavery going in these
quarters. Yes, to justify it,
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to defend it, saying we
treat our slaves very well
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yes, and to fight a
violent Civil War against the
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Emancipation Proclamation.
That's why slavery is alive
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and well in our world,
it's all about economics.
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It's all about profit, people
still find ways to justify
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slavery, they make excuses,
they try to make others believe
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their slaves have a better
life thank they would otherwise.
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Well, let's take a look
at precisely how slavery is
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happening today.
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There are about five examples
we talk about with modern day
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slavery here at
the Freedom Center.
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The first being child labor
where they are 18 years old
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or younger doing hard labor not
working at their parent's shops.
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We talk about domestic servitude
which has to do with Nanning
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or working at country clubs.
We talk about bonded labor
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which is borrowing money
and then never being able
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to pay it back. We talk about
sex trafficking which is the
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forced body labor where
you're doing things sexually
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usually with children or
young women and we talk about
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forced labor which is the most
like antebellum slavery in the
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United States where you are
forced to do something against
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your will. Of all of these, it's
really just about doing things
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against your will.
Once it becomes involuntary,
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that's when we talk
about modern day slavery.
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It's going on in Contemporary
Cities around the world,
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yes, many cities that have
freeways, office buildings,
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traffic lights, and railroad
tracks also have slaves hidden
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away somewhere.
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Now, these are the
most common types of slaves
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first, there is bonded
labor, that starts with debt.
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People in very hard times
may pledge themselves to labor
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to get a desperate loan
and they often end up working
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on and on for nothing because
they are under that debt.
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The services required, the
duration of the labor may not be
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clearly defined and often people
in bonded labor find the their
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debt is growing, not
diminishing because the loaner
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provides food and
shelter. Tragically debt bondage
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doesn't just go through a
life- time, it is actually being
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passed on from
generation to generation.
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Children are required to
pay off their parent's debt,
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this bonded labor, this debt
bondage is the most widespread
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form of slavery today.
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But there is another
form that is all too common,
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and that is what is
called human trafficking.
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It involves the women you'll
see standing on the streets in
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many cities selling
their bodies, (prostitution).
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Many of these women started out
very young and very distressed
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something had probably kicked
them out of a home and some
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pushy business guy promised
to take them somewhere else
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where they can find a
life. Human trafficking,
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these young, these children
often end up in another country
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often there illegally and
they're made to fear the police.
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They have to keep their identity
a secret, that's how their
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supposed rescuer forces
them into some sex industry,
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Sadly these trafficked women
and children come to believe
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that giving up their bodies is
the only way they can survive.
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A recent study revealed
that about 80% of transnational
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slaves are women and girls
and some 50% of them are minors.
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Slavery is very extensive today
we often don't have very good
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numbers because we're talking
about the differences between
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historical slavery in the United
States and modern-day slaveries.
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So, historically it was legal
so you had a lot of numbers
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to work with, people
were keeping track, today it's
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illegal and so a lot of
this is kind of black market and
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under the rug, if we will say.
So you don't have all the exact
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numbers, but a lot of people
do say that they percentage it
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that there are more people
in slave today than there ever
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have been before and so when
we are looking at that we say
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yes, there probably are more
people trafficked around the
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world but also just been slaved
within their own countries
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and the number today although
people are going back and forth
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because we don't have the actual
numbers can be anywhere from
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27 million to
about 30 or 31 million
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depending on your
definition of slavery.
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Today slavery is illegal
in every country almost every
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society and yet there are
some 27 million slaves worldwide
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debt bondage and sexual
bondage, all kinds of bondage.
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For example about 40
million people in India are
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bonded workers, most of Dallas
or untouchables, they are forced
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to work in terrible conditions
trying to pay off a debt
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year after year. In China
slavery was officially abolished
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in 1910 but in some regions
in that vast country it still
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sneaks in. Brick manufactures
in the province of Shanxi
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and Henan tried to get away
with it. In 2007 the Chinese
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government had to free
550 people stuck there in
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brick factories and
69 of them were children.
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In that Shanxi province, 95
province officials had to be
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punished for
allowing slavery to continue.
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The North Korean government
however does the opposite,
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it operates six very
large political prison camps,
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some 2 hundred thousand people
are subject to hard slave labor
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There are political prisoners
in their families are subject
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to inhumane
treatment and torture.
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In the Caribbean, Haiti had been
plagued by poverty and there are
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over 225,000 children who
work as restaveks, that's unpaid
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household servants. The United
Nations sees this as a form of
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slavery. Mauritania in Africa
was the last country to abolish
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slavery, not until 1981, and
yet today 20% of the population
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is enslaved. Many men, women,
and children used as bonded
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labor. Do you get the picture?
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It's happening all over
the world, countless people are
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being recruited into slavery.
They are tricked and deceived
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they get false job
offers, false migration offers,
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even false marriage
offers, some are even sold by
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family members,
some are simply abducted.
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And so, many are kept as slaves
because of debt or through
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isolation and threats.
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Many, especially those in
sex bondage, are kept as slaves
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through drug addiction.
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salvias is still alive today
I think for a lot of reasons
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some of it having to do
with power that internal need
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inherent need of people
to have control over others
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To think themselves better than
other people, so I think that's
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kind of the sociology of it, on
the other hand, there is a lot
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economics of material of product
people need. In this case
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human beings, labor, and other
people who are willing to pay
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for that product. So some of its
about power, some of it is about
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domination but a lot of it is
about economics and what people
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are willing to
pay for unfortunately.
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So what can we do to
eliminate this tragic practice/
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What can we do to be part
of an anti-slavery unit today?
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Well interestingly enough,
the best answers go back to that
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same Era in the mid-1800s,
except they go back to a
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different place, up north.
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A woman named Harriet Beecher
Stone for a time lived here
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in this homestead in Cincinnati
its architecture reflects that
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19th-century world. She grew
up in a very Christian home in
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Connecticut. When she was
21 she moved here to Cincinnati
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with the father who was the
president of Lane Theological
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Seminary. Well slavery in
America was becoming a bigger
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and bigger
political controversy.
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It was
threatening to split up the
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United States but many people
living in this nice19th century
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homesteads didn't even
want to think about that problem
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their terrible thing slavery.
They had a hard time even
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hearing about the awful
things slave-owners could do.
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And Harriet Beecher Stone
could have just lived her stable
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educated life too and ignored
those ugly things across the
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Ohio River.
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Instead, in 1850 she
wrote a book a novel called
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Uncle Tom's Cabin, it was based
on the narrative of a former
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black slave Josiah
Hansen. And he was described by
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Harriet Beecher Stone and
the public when they think about
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a gentleman called Uncle
Tom, that's the person she was
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describing and he was not
a fictional character, but
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he was a gentleman who in fact
lived and he was enslaved in
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Kentucky. And if you could
imagine he had a five-year-old
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son and a seven-year-old
son and a wife and he made two
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cotton sacks, he put one
son in one bag and the other son
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in another bag, he put
them on each shoulder and he and
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his wife would walk almost
15 miles a day and they walked
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almost 500 miles from
Kentucky through Cincinnati,
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then they went due north
to a place called Sandusky, OH
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and from there they went
to Canada and he not only
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successfully escaped but
he was able to escape with his
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wife and two sons. Later
he would come back and help
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other people to get out.
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Harriet's novel explained what
the life of a slave was really
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like, what it's like to be
abused day after day, what it's
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like to watch family members
sold away to other plantations,
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what it's like to risk your life
just for a breath of free air.
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Her Christian faith compelled
Harriet to expose something so
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inhumane. This woman's book
grew out of the contact with
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slaves and the underground
railroad, well this book became
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the best-selling novel of
the 19th Century, it would move
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America to abolish slavery.
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Harriet Beecher Stone shows
us the first important step
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in fighting something like
slavery, we don't ignore it.
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We don't just push it
aside as someone else's problem
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as something ugly in
some other parts of the world,
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the first step is to face it,
acknowledge it, deal with it.
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We have to confront the
fact that some 27 million human
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beings today cannot
get a life of their own.
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Let me tell you about a man
who made many speeches passing
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through these North American
towns in 1848, he campaigned
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for the Whig Party as the anti-
slavery movement was growing.
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This was congressman Abraham
Lincoln before he ran for
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President and his speeches would
become very memorable printed
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all over the east coast. As
a young congressman in Illinois
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he proclaimed.
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Now that was a time when
his fellow legislators wanted to
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pass a resolution against
Abolition Societies, against
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people trying to help run
away slaves and southerners were
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arguing that slaves in the
south were better off than hired
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laborers in the north.
But Lincoln stated this,
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That issue would erupt into the
American Civil War which began
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here at Fort Sumpter
where a Confederate Army began
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canon fire on this union
fortress, that battle would
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turn into a very long conflict.
But Abraham Lincoln's passion
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would eventually bring the real
issue of slavery home to the
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heart. After signing the
Emancipation Proclamation
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as president, he said this,
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During the Civil War when the
City of Vicksburg in the south
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fell to General Grant, Lincoln
would describe a big union
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victory in this way
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Abraham Lincoln was extremely
significant in the freeing of
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slaves, he is one of the
most complex characters I think
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when we talk about it, because
some herald him as the great
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emancipator, he wrote
the Emancipation Proclamation
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which was really a war-time
measure that freed slaves in
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rebellious territories.
However once the war was over
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there had to be something
that Congress passed which
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would then brought
about the 13th Amendment.
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So, between this war-time
measure that kind of stirred
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everything up and gave enslaved
idea that they could be free
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and become a movement up
to the north, then we have
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after the war we have
reconstruction, we have the
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13th Amendment and so he
was really important to kind of
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getting the ball rolling
to make slavery illegal in the
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United States. Abraham
Lincoln, the man behind
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the end of slavery in
America embodies something very
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important, he didn't
just believe the right thing,
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he didn't just support the
right political organizations,
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those opposing slavery,
he expressed his convictions
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passionately. He spoke out
against something and entire
00:21:05.96\00:21:10.23
culture had
justified for so long.
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Yes, it's like standing in a
battlement at Fort Sumter and
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facing that Confederate
canon fire, it was about
00:21:17.87\00:21:21.04
opposing slavery anyway.
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Today, I believe its people
who speak out who will really
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make a difference, who will
really build a momentum of an
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anti-slavery movement.
It's when passionate expressions
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encircle around towns, around
neighborhoods that they impel
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more and more people
to do something about it.
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The Freedom Center to me means
a place where we can have safe
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dialogs, where we can talk
about all of these things that
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that people are still very
uncomfortable about talking
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about but also very unclear
about what their history was
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and again so we talk about what
is relevant and bring it back
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and talk about how we can
make a better world whether you
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are white, black,
from Australia, from the
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United States, no matter where
you are we have a story for you.
00:22:12.93\00:22:17.23
And today, we don't have
to use canons, we can express
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convictions in all kinds of
ways that really get around.
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We can e-mail, we can
post things on Facebook,
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we can tweet on Twitter, we
can put things up on a blog.
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Slavery is so often
ignored today, it's so often
00:22:37.75\00:22:42.72
rationalized it really makes
a difference when we give a
00:22:42.76\00:22:47.43
personal voice
to why it must end.
00:22:47.46\00:22:49.30
Remember that Christian
principle about God's laws
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sinking into our hearts?
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Well, the Bible also emphasizes
expressing those moral
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principles giving them a
voice...The word testify pops up
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quite a bit in the New Testament
as Jesus would say about Himself
00:23:08.95\00:23:12.49
and His disciples in John 3:11.
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Now primarily those apostles
would testify about the gospel
00:23:22.66\00:23:28.24
about what Christ accomplished
but that Messiah is the one who
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proclaimed, if the Son
sets you free, you will be
00:23:33.84\00:23:37.45
free indeed. Christ had people
free in all kinds of ways,
00:23:37.48\00:23:41.65
free from disabilities, free
from illness, free from guilt,
00:23:41.68\00:23:46.96
free from oppression, yes
freedom is an essential part
00:23:46.99\00:23:52.46
of the truth of the gospel
and the New Testament urges us
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to speak that truth.
Here's Paul in Ephesians 4:25.
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In that same chapter,
Paul writes this is verse 15.
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Yes, speaking the truth helps
us grow, it helps us grow into
00:24:24.79\00:24:30.73
the one who makes people
free and when we express our
00:24:30.77\00:24:34.94
convictions, our passions,
its important to that in love.
00:24:34.97\00:24:40.18
It shouldn't be just getting
our anger out, it shouldn't just
00:24:40.21\00:24:44.51
be a way to vent our issues,
it shouldn't be just about
00:24:44.55\00:24:48.98
hating slave owners,
it needs to be about love.
00:24:49.02\00:24:52.72
We want to help people, we want
individuals to have better lives
00:24:52.75\00:24:57.89
we can make a difference. We can
put our energy behind something
00:24:57.93\00:25:02.86
that's bigger than us.
We can help eliminate one of
00:25:02.90\00:25:06.43
the biggest
tragedies in our world today.
00:25:06.47\00:25:09.04
How do we help fight slavery?
00:25:09.07\00:25:11.87
Well, first of all, by facing
it, it's real, it's a present
00:25:11.91\00:25:17.35
problem, it's hidden in
all kinds of devious ways.
00:25:17.38\00:25:21.18
It's promoted in all
kinds of economic ways,
00:25:21.22\00:25:24.49
Secondly, we can invest in
organizations that are opposing
00:25:24.52\00:25:28.96
slavery, that are helping
implement laws that will abolish
00:25:28.99\00:25:32.83
it. Do some research. Find
one that you feel is effective,
00:25:32.86\00:25:37.00
find one that you feel is taking
on a critical issue and become
00:25:37.03\00:25:41.70
a part of it. And finally,
express the truth that every
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human being should be free, yes
freedom, that's God's intention
00:25:46.14\00:25:51.21
that's what He helps us
grow toward, that's what the
00:25:51.25\00:25:55.48
Savior Jesus Christ laid out
in His in this sinful wounded
00:25:55.52\00:26:00.06
world, He longs
to make people free.
00:26:00.09\00:26:02.69
What does freedom mean to you?
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Freedom of choice, freedom from
addictions, freedom from pain
00:26:05.23\00:26:09.80
and suffering, freedom from
the past, or maybe it's freedom
00:26:09.83\00:26:14.97
from all of the above.
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Until then, let's
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Dear Heavenly Father,
We see the many terrible
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problems in our modern world,
you are the answer to all the
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problems we face.
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Please help us to find a way
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We ask this in Jesus name. Amen!
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