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Life in SlaveryBy: Eliza Ward



Some Facts

O Even after the earthquake in Haiti, the slaves system

still remained.

O Usually people get turned into slaves because theyare homeless, don't have any family or parents or have no more money.

O 50% of slaves are children because they don·t knowany better and their masters can teach them things

easier

O Many children are brought in from neighboring

countries like Burkina Faso, when their father dies theyhave to start working in the farm



How they are treatedIn Haiti 300,000 children work as a domestic servant. They

are uneducated and when they become adults they arethrown out to the streets. Slaves say that it is harder to runaway because now that life is harder and they don't havemoney or talk the language and they would get beaten a

lot if they get caught. A lot of poor families would often selltheir child to a wealthy family to earn some money. The

wealthy family would make the kid do all kinds of thingslike work clean cook for the family. Their bedrooms, the

garage floor, their food whatever the family did not wanteven if it was spoiled or rotten. The wealthy families would

punish the slaves which such little mistakes. Even thoughtimes have changed, the way the slaves are treated and

beaten has not changed. Slaves are almost never payedhow much they are supposed to be payed and

sometimes they are not payed at all. Some slaves· owners,would pour hot boiling water on their slaves to punish

them is little mistakes they have done.





A REAL Slaves Story

(Isabelle)Isabelle was a slave since she was 7. Her mother had sold herto a wealthy family because she did not have enoug h money,which then moved to California. The family used toilet brush,

shoved it in her mouth and twisted it for punishing her becausethey thoug ht she drank some of their tea. They would hurt herand she would go to the bathroom and cry, they would hit herfor many thing s that she did not do. One day she was walking with that wealthy family and a women came up to her and gaveIsabelle her phone number, she said ´If you ever need me, call

meµ the woman knew something was wrong. Isabelle was taking out the trash and the woman came to the house, shewas her car and let open the car door, Isabelle ran to the carand she was free.



ARE

AL Slaves Story(A bdul)

Everyone loves chocolate, and chocolate is the reason for many people·s

enslavement. Abdul has survived 3 years of slavery work in the cocoa farms.

He is only 10 years old. He does not earn wages from his working just

occasional tips from the owner which is food. He has never tasted chocolate,he doesn·t even know what the cocoa is used for. Kids from the farm wish

they could go to school, but most of them never spent a day at school

before. 200,000 children work on cocoa farms across Ivory Coast. Most

engaged on the worst form of child labour, many trafficked across borders.



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