Tonight at 11:30PM EST, ABC Nightline will air an episode inspired by the first chapter of A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery. The book by E. Benjamin Skinner's, has been heavily touted and a much needed eye opener into the world of modern day slavery.
Tonights episode, How to Buy a Child in Ten Hours, will look into the lives of Haiti's 300,000 estimated child slaves, and shock you with the ease that one can buy a child's life. Early reviews of the episode are saying that the piece is devastating, see a Good Morning America broadcast a teaser here. The episode, which shows ABC's Dan Harris traveling undercover to Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince to broker a deal to purchase a child, all in the matter of time most American's spend in their work day. It is all in a days work to enslave a child.
Earlier this year I brought you the post A Crime So Monstrous and Ending Slavery Shake DC to the Core, where you can see more on this book that will both engulf you into the seedy world of modern day slavery and shock you into action. Skinner's book is truely a must read for anyone with an ounce of moral fiber.
For more on the book please click here, where you can learn more on the plight of modern slavery. A portion of the proceeds from the book will go to Free The Slaves and Anti-Slavery International.
For more on the current situation of children in Haiti, please see my previous posts including; Haiti's Children the Poor of the Poor and Kidnapping and Violence on the Rise in Many Countries
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[...] Haiti who fought for freedom from slavery, winning independence from France in 1804, at which time slavery was officially ablolished, has now irronicly become a major global hub for modern slavery, seeing victims trafficked both with in the country and internationally. In neighboring Domenican Republic the sugar plantations are feed almost soley off the backs of Hatians, and children are sold like common goods as was seen when Nightline took a A Shocking Look into Child Slavery in Haiti. [...]
[...] Haiti’s Restavek system still has a tight grip on the community, leaving some 300,000 children in the country enslaved as domestic workers according to the UN. It is these children who will continue to anguish and suffer the most in the shadows of the earthquake. I think now of strained organizations, such as Limye Lavil, who work daily to fight on behalf of the Restavek children. Organizations which work tirelessly to address the economic and educational roots of the problem in Haiti are addressed, now are facing an even bigger challenge, to see that the plight of thousands of children are not victimized, revictimized, or lost in the shadows of the disaster. You can see more on the country’s Restavek children in my previous posts; Haiti’s Enslaved Children and A Shocking Look into Child Slavery in Haiti Tonight on Nightline [...]