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Undated: Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.[1] A slave is unable to withdraw unilaterally from such an arrangement and works without remuneration. Many scholars now use the term chattel slavery to refer to this specific sense of legalised, de jure slavery. In a broader sense, however, the word slavery may also refer to any situation in which an individual is de facto forced to work against their own will. Scholars also use the more generic terms such as unfree labour or forced labour to refer to such situations.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
Undated: Slavery distribution
A report by the Walk Free Foundation in 2013,[304] found India had the highest number of slaves, nearly 14 million, followed by China (2.9 million), Pakistan (2.1 million), Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Bangladesh; while the countries with the highest of proportion of slaves were Mauritania, Haiti, Pakistan, India and Nepal.[305]
In June 2013, U.S. State Department released a report on slavery. It placed Russia, China, Uzbekistan in the worst offenders category. Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and Zimbabwe were also at the lowest level. The list also included Algeria, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait among a total of 21 countries.[306][307]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#Contemporary_slavery
Undated: Slavery in the United States
The Walk Free Foundation reported in 2018 that slavery in wealthy Western societies is much more prevalent than previously known, in particular the United States and Great Britain, which have 403,000 (one in 800) and 136,000 slaves respectively. Andrew Forrest, founder of the organization, said that "The United States is one of the most advanced countries in the world yet has more than 400,000 modern slaves working under forced labor conditions."[308] An estimated 40.3 million are enslaved globally, with North Korea having the most slaves at 2.6 million (one in 10). The Foundation defines contemporary slavery as "situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, abuse of power, or deception."[309]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#Contemporary_slavery
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February 22: Trump Won South Carolina Because the Legacy of 'Plantation Economics' Endures
Counties with large enslaved populations before the Civil War are home today to voters more likely to support racist candidates.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2016/02/how-slavery-explains-trumps-win-in-south-carolina/470313/
March 2: Radio personality who interviewed Donald Trump Jr.: Slavery is 'greatest thing' that happened to African Americans
James Edwards — who is host of a radio show called “Political Cesspool” that has hosted leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis — was on a Super Tuesday episode of "The Liberty Roundtable" where he, along with host Sam Bushman and an additional co-host, interviewed Donald Trump Jr.
In his post about the event, Edwards praised Trump and encouraged his supporters to vote for him.
“The bottom line is that Trump is the only candidate who gives us a chance at having a fighter who will put America first. He’s the only candidate who isn’t owned and operated by special interests. With Trump, America has a chance to regain her identity,” he wrote in his blog. “A new day is dawning and it’s a beautiful sight to behold. Vote Trump.”
https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/donald-trump-son-pro-slavery-host-interview-220120
August 30: Former Models for Donald Trump’s Agency Say They Violated Immigration Rules and Worked Illegally
“It’s like modern-day slavery.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/
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February 1: Donald Trump's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Marking Black History Month, the president made some strange observations about Douglass and Martin Luther King, but mostly talked about himself.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/frederick-douglass-trump/515292/
November 29: Trump inspired Libyans to call slavery reports 'fake news'
People around the world were shocked and angered by a disturbing report from CNN revealing the horrific reality of human slave markets operating in Libya.
The slave trade has cropped-up throughout Libya in the wake of the North African country's ongoing civil war, with African migrants being sold for as little as $400.
Now, however, thanks to the influence of U.S. President Donald Trump and his war on the media, and in particular his attacks on CNN, some Libyans have begun questioning whether the report is true.
Broadcaster Libya 218 also used Trump's attacks on CNN to suggest that the CNN report can't be trusted.
https://stepfeed.com/trump-inspired-libyans-to-call-slavery-reports-fake-news-3979
December 29: Trump declares January 'National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month'
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-declares-january-national-slavery-and-human-trafficking-prevention-month
December 31: The White House said about 25 million people are currently being enslaved worldwide “for both sex and labor,” which the proclamation said was “a sickening crime at odds with our very humanity.”
In the proclamation, Trump listed the measures his administration had already taken in its first year to eliminate human trafficking.
https://newspunch.com/trump-free-25000000-slaves/
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March 31: Roseanne Bizarrely Claims That Trump Has Freed Children Around The World From Sex Slavery
"President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world. Hundreds each month. He has broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere. notice that. I disagree on some things, but give him benefit of doubt-4 now."
Nobody will argue that human trafficking is reprehensible and any efforts against it are worthy of praise. But Roseanne’s comments left many asking where she was getting this information ... the comment likely stems from a claim made last year that human trafficking arrests are up since Trump entered The White House
https://uproxx.com/news/roseanne-trump-sex-slavery-tweet/
April 17: 'Father Of Gynecology,' Who Experimented On Slaves, No Longer On Pedestal In NYC
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/17/603163394/-father-of-gynecology-who-experimented-on-slaves-no-longer-on-pedestal-in-nyc
May 24: The ‘White Slavery’ Law That Brought Down Jack Johnson is Still in Effect
The Mann Act was designed to prevent human trafficking—but used to punish interracial relationships.
He was known as the Galveston Giant—a boxer who fought his way toward the first world heavyweight title held by an African-American. But in 1912, Jack Johnson became something else: a wanted man. Accused of violating the Mann Act, which forbade transporting a woman across state lines for “immoral purposes,” Mann’s relationships with white women got him in trouble with the law.
Now, 72 years after his death, President Trump has pardoned Johnson. The pardon took place during an Oval Office ceremony during which Trump referred to Johnson as enduring “what many view as a racially-motivated injustice.” President Obama’s administration had considered pardoning Johnson, too, but declined to do so due to allegations he physically abused women.
https://www.history.com/news/white-slave-mann-act-jack-johnson-pardon
June 11: Trump urged to push North Korea to end slavery at Singapore summit
United States President Donald Trump should press Pyongyang to end state-imposed slavery and forced labor, said North Korean defectors ahead of a historic summit between the leaders of both countries.
With an estimated 1.1 million people – or one in 20 citizens – living in slavery, North Korea was ranked the worst country in the world in terms of prevalence in the 2016 Global Slavery Index by the rights group Walk Free Foundation.
https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/sustainability/2018/06/11/trump-urged-to-push-north-korea-to-end-slavery-at-singapore-summit/
June 12: America’s legacy of slavery seen in Trump policy separating children and families
http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/featured/americas-legacy-slavery-seen-trump-policy-separating-children-families/
June 18: Slave owners and Nazis quote Romans 13 to justify immorality, too
The Trump administration has separated some 2,000 children from their parents, most of whom have come to the United States seeking asylum.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited the Bible, Romans 13, as justification for this zero-tolerance immigration policy. The first verse reads: “Everyone is to obey the governing authorities, because there is no authority except from God and so whatever authorities exist have been appointed by God.”
Romans 13 has been invoked by scoundrels throughout its history. British Royals cited it to chastise rebellious American revolutionaries. Slave owners in early America justified the institution of slavery by quoting it. American law authorized slave owners to separate black sons and daughters from mothers and fathers by selling them to another slave owner.
Jeff Sessions is an old school Alabamian raised in the ways of the segregated South, so maybe such thinking is not unfamiliar to him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/slave-owners-and-nazis-quote-the-romans-13-to-justify-immorality-too/
July 5: Trump’s Head of Family Planning Compared Abortion to Slavery and the Holocaust
Diane Foley, who runs the federal family planning program known as Title X, was also critical of adoption as an option for women with unintended pregnancies, according to a Senate memo
The memo outlines the ways in which Diane Foley, a political appointee with extreme and medically inaccurate views on women’s health, could reshape the nation’s only source of federal funding for family planning services, including low- or no-cost birth control, STD testing and treatment, and breast and cervical cancer screenings. The program serves 4 million people each year, primarily low-income women and women of color.
https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/7xqz8y/diane-foley-compared-abortion-to-slavery-and-the-holocaust
July 31: Jair Bolsonaro, a favorite in the Brazilian presidential race, said his country owed blacks no debt because of slavery and pledged to cut back affirmative action policies.
"What debt of slavery? I never enslaved anyone in my life," the former Army captain said in an interview on TV Cultura late on Monday. "Look, if you really look at history, the Portuguese didn’t even step foot in Africa. The blacks themselves turned over the slaves.”
Brazil was one of the last large economies to abandon slavery in 1888, and it imported more slaves than any other nation. Roughly half of the country’s 210 million inhabitants consider themselves black or dark-skinned, according to the national statistics institute.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-31/brazil-candidate-bolsonaro-minimizes-slavery-praises-trump
August 15: CNN Panelist Angela Rye Schools Trump Supporter For ‘Nonsense’ Slavery Comments
Fellow panelist Gina Loudon made an absurd attempt to defend the White House’s lack of diversity.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cnn-angela-rye-gina-loudon_us_5b74bfd0e4b0df9b093bf692
September 21: The Trump administration says global slavery and child labor are bad — for American businesses
They give an “unfair advantage” to US competitors, according to the US Labor Department.
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/21/17886464/trump-labor-department-forced-labor-slavery
October 3: Melania Trump, US first lady, visits Ghana slave fort
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45734901
October 11: President Donald J. Trump Is Taking Action to End Human Trafficking
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-taking-action-end-human-trafficking/
November 5: Trump’s nativism harks back to the antebellum slavery struggle
https://religionnews.com/2018/11/05/trumps-nativism-harks-back-to-the-antebellum-slavery-struggle/
November 5: Trump is cutting Mauritania’s US trade benefits because it still hasn’t stopped slavery
The west African country ranks sixth out of 167 in the Global Slavery Index and is also known for jailing anti-slavery activists. Slavery is culturally ingrained in Mauritania where ethnic Haratins have been caught in a decades-long cycle of servitude.
https://qz.com/africa/1450919/trump-cuts-off-trade-with-mauritania-over-slavery/
November 11: The Trump admin sent him 'home' to a land where slavery lives on
Mauritanians in the U.S. fear they’ll share the fate of Issa Sao, who was sent back to a country where thousands of blacks are still enslaved.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-sent-him-home-land-where-slavery-lives-n934506
December 17: Alec Baldwin tweets that Trump is 'punishment' for slavery, slaughtering Native Americans
The actor, who frequently spoofs Trump on "Saturday Night Live," claimed in an incendiary tweet this weekend that the POTUS is "punishment" for a variety of American sins.
"Trump is a curse, brought down on us as punishment 4 our sins. The slaughter of Native Americans, slavery, Japanese internment, Vietnam. Every hateful, misogynistic, racist notion, intertwined w our better nature, Trump embodies those. He is us. Now we can face it + exorcise it," he wrote.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/alec-baldwin-tweets-that-trump-is-punishment-for-slavery-slaughtering-native-americans
Undated: The Ignorance Is Way Too Real: Ex-Trump Rep [Katrina Pierson] Says Slavery Was ‘Good History’…Twice
It's almost unbelievable that a Trump supporter would see slavery as a good thing. Almost.
... “Slavery is good history?”
Instead of taking the opportunity to correct herself doubled down on her unbelievable statement, saying, “absolutely.”
And it only got worse from there as Pierson went on to continue defending the history of slavery and credited slave owners with building the country, stating, “The people that founded this country were slave owners.”
https://woldcnews.com/1599093/donald-trump-slavery-katrina-pierson/
November 29: Migrants and refugees stuck in Libya are being sold into slavery, CNN reported earlier this month.
The combination of Libya’s splintered government in the wake of Muammar Gaddafi’s fall and the influx of people from Nigeria has led to a situation where stranded men and women are being held against their will and, in some cases, sold into slavery or prostitution.
“As shocking as it seems, it’s indeed true. The reason [the slave trade] can happen is because there is really no rule of law across much of Libya,” Leonard Doyle of the International Organization of Migration told Al Jazeera.
It’s estimated that between 400,000 and 1 million migrants may now be trapped in Libya, where the vulnerable population is preyed upon by smugglers and other criminal elements who rob, rape, and murder them.
While President Donald Trump has not commented specifically on the reports out of Libya, he did tweet about CNN International spreading “fake news” after a story about the slave trade there was published.
http://fortune.com/2017/11/29/libya-slave-trade/
December 29: President Donald J. Trump Proclaims January 2018 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-proclaims-january-2018-national-slavery-human-trafficking-prevention-month/
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