11,328,000 estimated human beings turned into chattel and possessions of other humans! Jaysus Christ. That is a chilling figure.

This does not include more modern equivalents being run under the radar for the most part, such as sexual-slave trafficking, child-sweatshop and prostitution rings, and the underground traffick in illegal immigrants and refugees who end up in the equivalent of forced labour or sweatshop situations. I have no idea what the extent of these practices is, but more to the point, they bring home, along with the above figures, how callous and insane some segments of our species is as regards other humans.

And we think we wage-slaves have it bad. At least we can walk away.


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