What Have We Learned ?

The number of women and children trafficked into sexual servitude (slavery) and debt bondage is impossible to quantify, but it is estimated that between 700,000 to 4 million people are trafficked around the world annually for sexual exploitation and many more are condemned to slave labour on cocoa plantations and other agriculture.

These 2 verses from a poem written almost 200 years ago show that people are just as uncaring and, in some cases, more inhumane than in the 19th Century.

I invite you to suggest your ideas on remedying the situation by adding your comments to this blog.
Patricia Church.
The Slave's Dream
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882)
Beside the ungathered rice he lay,
His sickle in his hand;
His breast was bare, his matted hair
Was buried in the sand.
Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep,
He saw his Native Land.

He did not feel the driver's whip,
Nor the burning heat of day;
For Death had illumined the Land of Sleep,
And his lifeless body lay
A worn-out fetter, that the soul
Had broken and thrown away!