{"id":380,"date":"2015-08-22T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/22\/salvery-in-the-factory-2\/"},"modified":"2015-08-22T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T19:17:00","slug":"salvery-in-the-factory-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/salvery-in-the-factory-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Salvery in the Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nSlavery<\/span>
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\nAugust 23rd is International Slavery Remembrance Day.  Too often we think of the institution of
\nslavery as something in the past. 
\nIndeed, the history of slavery is as old as the history of mankind.  There always existed the more powerful, the
\nmore influential, the richer\u2026and the poorest, the more ignorant, the more
\nvulnerable.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nThe ancient Romans had slaves, the Egyptian slaves built the
\npyramids and the Great Wall of China was constructed by more than 3 million
\nslaves.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nWe are familiar with the African-American Slave trade that
\ninvolved not only the Americas and Africa but relied upon European countries to
\nprovide the slave transports.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nSadly, slavery is not the past.  According to an article in the Washington Post, Oct. 17, 2013, it
\nwas estimated by the Walk-Free Foundation that more than 29 million people
\nthroughout the world were living as slaves (nearly 60,000 in the US). In 1981
\nMauritania was the last country to officially abolish slavery.  Still, that country has one of the highest
\npercentages of the population (nearly 4%) enslaved.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nThe word \u201cslave\u201d was first applied to captives of Slavic
\norigin in southeastern Europe and is defined as a human being who is owned by
\nand absolutely subject to another human being, as by capture, purchase or
\nbirth.  There are many types of slavery,
\nfrom children and young women sold in the sex trade to workers harvesting
\ncoffee beans and cacoa, miners in gold mines and factory workers working under
\nappalling conditions.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nOver the next few months I will introduce thoughts (and
\nfacts) about slavery in the field of textiles and textile production.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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