International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

The annual global profit generated from forced labour is estimated at US$236 billion. This amount represents wages effectively stolen from workers, particularly affecting those already struggling to support their families. For migrant workers, it means less money being sent back home. Additionally, governments lose tax revenue due to the illegal nature of these profits, which can also foster further exploitation, empower criminal networks, and undermine the rule of law. The Profits and Poverty report aims to shed light on these illegal gains . It reveals that the profits are alarmingly high and have surged over the past decade, driven by an increase in forced labour and higher profits per victim. According to the ILO, there were 27.6 million people in forced labour worldwide in 2021. From 2016 to 2021, the number increased by 2.7 million, mostly due to privately imposed forced labour. No region is exempt from the problem, with Asia and the Pacific having the highest number (15.1 m...

Online Exhibitions The Missing Chapter:Untold Stories of the African American Presence in the Mid-Hudson Valley A project of Hudson River Valley Heritage, Historic Huguenot Street and the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council Slavery in New York Online version of a major exhibition on slavery in New York City, mounted by the New-York Historical Society in 2005. International Slavery Museum (Liverpool, UK) Opened August 2007, the ISM is the only museum of its kind to look at aspects of historical and contemporary slavery and serves as an international hub for resources on human rights issues. Captive Passage A digital resource on the Transatlantic slave trade and its importance for the making of America. From the Mariner's Museum (Newport News, Virginia), in cooperation with the South Side Seaport Museum (New York City) and the National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside (Liverpool, UK). Slavery and Justice: Selections from the John Carter Brown Library at Brown Univer...

Explore the collections of: Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas (University of Virginia) Archive of Early American Images (John Carter Brown Library)  

The  Digital Archeological Archive of Comparative Slavery  allows researchers to view and compare archaeological assemblages and architectural plans from different archeological sites in the Chesapeake, Carolinas, and Caribbean during the Colonial and Ante-Bellum Periods.  Analyze the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants  at unprecedented levels of detail.  DAACS is a community resource, conceived and maintained in the Department of Archaeology  at Monticello, in collaboration with  research institutions and archaeologists  working throughout the Atlantic World.

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery , December 2nd , marks the date of the adoption, by the United Nations General Assembly , of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others ( resolution 317(IV) of 2 December 1949). The focus of this day is on eradicating contemporary forms of slavery , such as trafficking in persons, sexual exploitation , the worst forms of child labour , forced marriage , and the forced recruitment of children for use in armed conflict.