Companies with slaves today

[Abraham Lincoln][Companies with slaves today][Companies against slavery today][Similarities from back then and now][African American Abolitionists]

There are many companies that still have serfs working today. Two of the largest places with slavery are the chocolate bar companies and large supermarket franchises. The chocolate bar companies require many child laborers who live in the Ivory Coast to give up their childhood to tend the cocoa beans. The Ivory Coast produces one half of the world's cocoa, which is that much harder that the children have to work. About 15,000 children are captured as slaves to work in the cocoa fields. The children are usually beaten with chains or branches, and they are usually younger than ten years old. They would have to carry bags of cocoa larger than themselves, and when the work got physically too demanding, their bodies would collapse. The slave owners would beat them until they were forced to rise up again. About eighteen children have to sleep in the same bedroom, measuring 24 by 20, which is extremely small and not suitable for living conditions.

Another company that has serfs who work hard for their others' benefits are large supermarket franchises. In some, Chinese immigrants are forced to work seventy to ninety hours a week for less than three cents. They are given work expectations for that day, and aren't allowed to sleep until that amount is accomplished. There is a twenty-four hour surveillance cameras examining them while they are forced to do backbreaking work in 100 degree temperatures. There are plenty more companies that make abolishing slavery today so hard. Therefore, there is the Boycott of Goods Day. It is reserved for serfs who work under conditions like these; working over extensively and getting paid very low prices. This day is when people don't buy products from companies that treat people this way. We must fight and convince them that slavery is wrong, but we might need another Abraham Lincoln for that.