Upgrade From Chains to Pains

Seeing movies made around history of slavery that happened in past centuries, seeing how people lived, worked hard, suffered and more, would always get me thanking God in a corner of my heart that I was not born then.

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People were taken as slaves either through war or colonization and no slavery movie would actually make you smile or happy not until the freedom scene is shown and people are set free from being slaves.
Just like my people would say:

Though it may be faraway but slave has a father.

Thankfully, act of slavery was stopped and people are set free under the law and no one is dared to come out to the public saying he or she is into slave trade but the sincere question iremains that, is it really true that slave trade is put to an end and to a stop? Is it true that Slavery is no longer happening or we are just merely overlooking the fact?

Nowadays, it's no longer based on chains on legs or hands in the process of trading people for money. It's no longer about having a uniform for slaves and taking them here and there to serve. Everything is been modernized now in a way that someone doesn't even get to suspect they are walking in the path of becoming a slave.

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Human trafficking keep increasing day by day, taking people under the disguise of getting jobs for people abroad but at the end of the day, ladies are been taken away for prostitution while guys are taken away to do some dirty jobs.
Worst part is that all necessary documents of theirs to even run back home when they realize the trap they had fallen into would have been collected from them.

They are seen as beautiful, handsome and independent on the outside but in their closets, they are on the A-list of being a slave.

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Some ladies are taken out of their own will to be slept with unwillingly, getting pregnant like it's an annual employment and giving birth to babies that would serve as business of selling to those in need of babies either for ritual purposes or to call their own after being unable to give birth to theirs. Most of the victims now even see it as their jobs since they have nowhere to run to.

Funny enough most of the locations where these acts occurs are known publicly but nothing is been done to apprehend the offenders or stop this act.

At the end of the day, most opportunities are lost when it comes to securing jobs from outside the country all because people are scared not to fall victims of this wickedness.

This made me remember someone who came to my DM sometime ago, telling me about a job in a certain place out of Nigeria which had so many benefits, and that all my traveling expenses would be covered of which I can start to refund in percentage which we decide to agree on when I get there and start earning. As nice as the offer is, mentioning the location made me block her offer in my reasoning because it was a no go area for me and even if it was even a different location, I will still think about it twice before proceeding since it's not a direct offer from the employer.

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Aside the slavery from one nation to another, it will sound funny if I say that slavery still occurs within our dear country.
Employers paying below the standard minimum wages for employees is an act of slavery. You know what you want as an employer and got it but because you know that unemployment rate out there is way too high and knows that the applicant do not have option, you decided to underpay him/her with a whole lot of job roles and description. ITS AN ACT OF SLAVERY

Probably if the government and private sectors would do something about reducing unemployment in the country, then slavery of any form would reduce to the minimum level both within the country and outside the country. There would be a reduction in how people seek for a greener pasture if our own country tends to provide a favourable economy to the citizens.

I'll be dropping my 🖊️ here on the Hive Learners prompt on Slavery

Thanks for reading through 🤗