International Day for the Abolition of Slavery • December 2
People think slavery belongs to old history—something solved, closed, and safely behind us.
But the truth is quieter and heavier: slavery didn’t disappear. It simply learned how to blend in.
The chains are gone, but control stayed. The markets vanished, but exploitation found new doors.
Instead of open cruelty, it now hides in contracts, debts, threats, and fake opportunities that slowly trap a person’s whole life.
A worker kept in place by a debt that never shrinks.
A migrant unable to leave because someone holds their documents.
A child pushed into labor because there is no protection.
A woman forced into a marriage she never chose.
A person tracked and manipulated online for profit.
Different methods, different names—forced labor, trafficking, exploitation—but the same violation underneath: a human life treated like property.
Do you think slavery survived because the world agreed with it? Nah… it survived because it became easier to overlook.
Seeing that truth doesn’t solve everything, but it keeps us awake. And staying awake is the first real step toward ending it for good.
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery… abolition is not just for the day.
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