A report on Siddharth Kara

Author, activist, and expert on modern-day slavery and human trafficking, child labor, and related human rights issues.

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Relief depicting slaves in chains in the Roman Empire, at Smyrna, 200 CE

Slavery

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Someone forbidden to quit their service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as their property.

Someone forbidden to quit their service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as their property.

Relief depicting slaves in chains in the Roman Empire, at Smyrna, 200 CE

Flogging a slave fastened to the ground, illustration in an 1853 anti-slavery pamphlet

A poster for a slave auction in Georgia, U.S., 1860

Portrait of an older woman in New Orleans with her enslaved servant girl in the mid-19th century

The work of the Mercedarians was in ransoming Christian slaves held in North Africa (1637).

Sale and inspection of slaves

Branding of a female slave

Barefooted slaves depicted in David Roberts' Egypt and Nubia, issued between 1845 and 1849

Slave branding, c. 1853

Corinthian black-figure terra-cotta votive tablet of slaves working in a mine, dated to the late seventh century BC

Ishmaelites purchase Joseph, by Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1860

Slave Market in Ancient Rome, by Jean-Léon Gérôme

13th-century slave market in Yemen.

Adalbert of Prague pleads with Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia for the release of slaves

A British captain witnessing the miseries of slaves in Ottoman Algeria, 1815

Crimean Tatar raiders enslaved more than 1 million Eastern Europeans.

19th-century engraving depicting an Arab slave-trading caravan transporting black African slaves across the Sahara Desert.

Slave market in Algiers, 1684

Arab-Swahili slave traders and their captives on the Ruvuma River in East Africa, 19th century

A model showing a cross-section of a typical 1700s European slave ship on the Middle Passage, National Museum of American History.

Statue of Bussa, who led the largest slave rebellion in Barbadian history.

Public flogging of a slave in 19th-century Brazil, by Johann Moritz Rugendas

Slave punishment by Jacques Étienne Arago, 1839.

Slaves in Cuba unloading ice from Maine, 1832

Saint-Domingue slave revolt in 1791

Planting the sugar cane, British West Indies, 1823

On March 22, 1873, Spain abolished slavery in Puerto Rico. The owners were compensated.

Funeral at slave plantation, Dutch Suriname. 1840–1850.

A coffle of slaves being driven on foot from Staunton, Virginia to Tennessee in 1850.

Whipping keloid scars of escaped slave, Gordon, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (1863). This famous photo was distributed by abolitionists.

Slaves on a Virginia plantation (The Old Plantation, c. 1790).

A contract from the Tang dynasty recording the purchase of a 15-year-old slave for six bolts of plain silk and five coins.

Kisaeng, women from outcast or slave families who were trained to provide entertainment, conversation, and sexual services to men of the upper class.

Persian slave in the Khanate of Khiva, 19th century

Workers being forced to haul rocks up a hill in a Gulag

Forced slave labourers in a Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II

Modern incidence of slavery, as a percentage of the population, by country.

Tuareg society is traditionally feudal, ranging from nobles, through vassals, to dark-skinned slaves.

A world map showing countries by prevalence of female trafficking

Chinese Emperor Wang Mang abolished slavery in 17 CE but the ban was overturned after his assassination.

Olaudah Equiano, His autobiography, published in 1789, helped in the creation of the Slave Trade Act 1807 which ended the African slave trade for Britain and its colonies.

Joseph Jenkins Roberts, born in Virginia, was the first president of Liberia, which was founded in 1822 for freed American slaves.

Poster for Spartacus

Slavic and African slaves in Córdoba, illustration from Cantigas de Santa Maria, 13th Century

1804 Haiti massacre, carried out by Haitian soldiers, mostly former slaves, against the remaining French population

According to researcher Siddharth Kara, the profits generated worldwide by all forms of slavery in 2007 were $91.2 billion.

Child labor in brick kilns in South Asia

Debt bondage

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Pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation.

Pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation.

Child labor in brick kilns in South Asia

Workers storing rice in India in 1952

A worker preparing fish caught off the coast of South Africa

Though the figures differ from those of the International Labour Organization, researcher Siddharth Kara has calculated the number of slaves in the world by type, and determined that at the end of 2011 there were 18 to 20.5 million bonded laborers.

Memphis University School

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College-preparatory, independent, day school for boys, grades 7–12, located in Memphis, Tennessee.

College-preparatory, independent, day school for boys, grades 7–12, located in Memphis, Tennessee.

Siddharth Kara '92, Writer, expert on human trafficking