Essay On Slavery Now

Slavery: Then and Now

When we think about slavery many things come to our mind. There are many different ways one can describe slavery. If you were to look it up in a dictionary it would say that a slave is “one who is owned and forced into service by another,” this was the definition given in the Webster’s Dictionary. But then again if you were to look it up in the Oxford Dictionary the definition given here is of one who is an “obsessive devotee.” On the whole slavery can have different meanings to different people.

The meaning of slavery has a different meaning today than it did years ago. As Alex Haley wrote, slavery was difficult to explain years ago because it was going on at the time. Today when someone says the word slavery more

In Brazil, poverty-stricken young men are promised good work by harvesting crops. Impressed by the opportunity to better their lives they agree to for the work. Instead of going to work they are trucked hundreds of miles to isolated jungles and forced at gunpoint to clear rainforest. I don’t know about you, but harvesting and clearing up the rainforest are totally different things.

In Haiti men are also trucked but these men are trucked across the island of Hispaniola to the Dominican Republic and forced to cut sugar cane. The men in Haiti do not have it as bad though; sure they get paid for working twelve hours a day, seven days a week. How much? Well their wages, if they could be called that, is below the cost of food. Some people would say that they are getting paid for their work so they are not really considered slaves, but according to the Webster’s Dictionary they are because these men remain captives for many years, some even for

Some people could be said to be a slave to their work. But would that qualify as slavery as it is described? The answer pretty much depends on who you are. In some instances you can say “ Yes you can be a slave to work, and it be considered slavery.” Someone can be so into his or her work that they sleep, think, and walk work. These are the people who often place work first and then their family. Another common term for this is workaholic. Occasionally this is caused because when they were young they lacked things that they wanted. This caused them to grow up thinking that they must be rich and successful in order to get and give the things that they did not have when they were young. Often a person who is a slave to their work think that weekends and holidays is a fine time to work. They tend to put too much emphases on their work that they forget about the needs of their family, this need is not financial need, but the need of love and personal