FREE THE SLAVES CONTEST

[Ravyn Crescent]

As you might know, I'm acquaintances with Kevin Bales of freetheslaves.net
For my 18th birthday, he sent me a signed copy of his novel Disposable People.

In this contest, we test your knowledge on Slavery. You are free to use any sources you wish in order to answer these questions and you will get 5 gold for every one you get correct.

This is the start of a new feature we'll have here. Very soon we will be having anti-slavery merchandise up in the shop that members can purchase. These items will not only help you spread the word about modern day slavery, they will also help free slaves as a portion of the profit will go directly to the efforts of freeing a slave. The remainder of the profit goes to funding myself and my efforts so, in the end, 100% of the profits go to help ending slavery.

These contest questions are designed to start helping members realize how large the slavery problem is in our day and age.

Take the quiz, take your time and when you are done PM me your answers.

Quiz is in the post below this, you have till October 5th, Allyson's birthday, to complete it. (Ally, you should try this, too, even though you don't need the gold)

[Ravyn Crescent]

This quiz was painstakingly created by Tiffanie Vian who took days to research it all and it has been double checked by me and Kevin Bales has seen it. All the information came from freetheslaves.net.

If you wish to comment about this quiz (and we hope you do!) please start a topic here in the Human Trafficking section.
Please do not redistribute this quiz without my permission and PLEASE link back to this forum.



1) There are an estimated _______ slaves in the world today.

a) 5 million

b) 27 million

c) 1 thousand

d) none



2) That is more than _______ the number of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-atlantic slave trade.

a) three times

b) six times

c) four times

d) twice



3) People are enslaved by violence and held against their wills for the purposes of exploitation.

a) The meaning of slavery one hundred years ago

b) The meaning of child abuse today

c) The meaning of slavery today

d) The meaning of child abuse one hundred years ago



4) Today a slave is: (Pick the one that’s NOT what a slave is today)

a) Forced to work – through mental or physical threat

b) Owned or controlled by an ‘employer’, usually through mental or physical abuse or threatened abuse

c) Physically constrained or has restrictions placed on their freedom of movement

d) Sold in a privet auction to other slave owners



5) It is estimated that slavery began around _________ years ago when people started to settle and farm instead of wandering as hunters and gathers. Slavery was part of nearly every society and existed in Egypt as early as _______. Slavery was part of life in both the Greek and Roman empires.

a) 11,000 – 4,000 BC

b) 4,000 – 11,00 BC

c) 11,000 – 2,500 BC

d) 15,000 – 4,000 BC



6) The US government estimates that _____ - ______ people are brought into the US each year to be used as slaves. This is real slavery, people forced to work against their wills under violence or threat of violence and are paid nothing. Like the slaves of the past, slaves in American can not walk away. They have lost control of their lives, and they are being exploited and brutalized in terrible ways.

a) 11,000 – 15,000

b) 14,500 – 17,500

c) 5,000 – 11,000

d) 14,500 – 18,000



7) How can we find slaves in our community? (Which it NOT a sign)
a) Is not free to change employers

b) Has had to much money taken out of paycheck for taxes

c) Has been cheated into payment of debt upon arrival

d) Does not control his or her own earnings



8) Millions of economically and socially vulnerable people around the world are potential slaves. This “supply” makes slaves today cheaper than they have ever been. An average slave in the American South in 1850 cost the equivalent of $40,000 in today’s money; today a slave costs an average of _______. Since they are so cheap, slaves are no longer a major investment worth maintaining. If slaves get ill, are injured, outlive their usefulness, or become troublesome to the slaveholder, they are dumped or killed. Slavery exists all over the world even though it is illegal everywhere.

a) $100

b) $50

c) $90

d) $400



9) ______ of children are held as slaves in the United States. These children are trafficked into the US by organized crime rings that trick the children and their parents into thinking they will be able to have a paying job in the United States. Once inside the US, the children are held as salves in forced prostitution, domestic service, and agriculture labor.
a) Hundreds

b) Thousands

c) Millions

d) Ten of Thousands





MATCHING 1:

1) Bonded labor

2) Forced labor

3) Worse forms of child labor

4) Commercial sexual exploitation of children

5) Trafficking

6) Early and forced marriage

7) Traditional or ‘chattel’ slavery





a) This affects people who are illegally recruited by governments, political parties or private individuals, and forced to work, usually under threat or violence.

b) A person becomes bonded when their labor is demanded as a means of repayment of a loan or money given in advance. There are 20 million people working as this worldwide. This is particularly common in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Brazil and the Caribbean.

c) Children are exploited through prostitution, trafficking and pornography. They are often kidnapped, bought, or forced to enter the sex market. This is particularly common in Asia.

d) Women and girls are married without choice and forced into life of servitude, and often physical violence. This occurs in North Africa and some Asian countries.

e) This refers to children who work in dangerous or exploitative conditions.

f) This involves the transport and or trade of humans, usually women or children, for economic gain and involving force or deception. Often migrant women and girls are tricked and forced into domestic work and prostitution. Women from Asia, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and South America are sent frequently to regions such as the US, EU, Japan, and the Middle East.

g) Today people are still bought and sold as commodities. They are often abducted from their homes, inherited or given as gifts. This is common in West Africa, particularly Mauritania.







MATCHING 2:
1) 1380 BC

2) 1789

3) 1803

4) 1825

5) 1845

6) 1848

7) 1888

8) 1926

9) 1939 – 1945

10) 1962

11) 1976

12) 1980

13) 1997

14) 2003



a) On August 26th, during the French Revolution, the National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Men, one of the fundamental charters of human liberties. The first of 17 articles states: “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights.”

b) In the aftermath of the Black Plague, Europe’s slave trade revives to deal with the labor shortage.

c) 36 British Navy ships are assigned to the Anti-Slavery Squadron, making it one of the largest fleets in the world.

d) Denmark becomes the first country in Europe to ban African slave trade. A law passed in 1792 takes effects, to forbid trading in slaves by Danish subjects and to end the importation of slaves into Danish dominions.

e) Argentina, Peru, Chile, and Bolivia abolish legal slavery

f) Slavery ends in South America when the legislature of Brazil frees the country’s 725,000 slaves by enacting the Lei Aurea (Golden Law)

g) After the revolution of 1848 in France, the new government abolishes slavery in all French colonies

h) Burma abolishes legal slavery

i) India passes a law banning bonded labor

j) The German Nazi government uses slave labor throughout the war in farming and industry. Up to nine million are forced to work, when they are worn out workers are sent to concentration camps.

k) Abolition of slavery in Saudi Arabia and Yemen

l) Imports to the U.S. made by child-bonded labors are banned

m) Year that Pakistan has assured the United Nations that ‘all bonded labor will stop’ in their country

n) Slavery is abolished for the fourth time in the Islamic republic of Mauritania, but the situation is not fundamentally changed. Although the law decrees that “slavery” no longer exists, the ban does not address how masters are to be compensated or how slaves are to gain property.