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Pages in category "Slavery by country" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
World map of the 2024 Global Slavery Index, showing estimated prevalence of slavery by country. The Global Slavery Index is a global study of modern slavery published by the Minderoo Foundation's Walk Free initiative. Four editions have been published: in 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2018.
Modern incidence of slavery, as a percentage of the population, by country (2024). Even though slavery is now outlawed in every country, the number of slaves today is estimated as between 12 million and 29.8 million.
[120] 35.3% of all slaves from the Atlantic Slave trade went to Colonial Brazil. 4 million slaves were obtained by Brazil, 1.5 million more than any other country. [121] Starting around 1550, the Portuguese began to trade enslaved Africans to work the sugar plantations, once the native Tupi people deteriorated.
The 2018 Global Slavery Index estimated that 2.8 million people were slaves in the country. [24] The value of all the labor done by North Koreans for the government is estimated at US$975 million, with dulgyeokdae (youth workers) forced to do dangerous construction work, and inminban (women and girl workers) forced to make clothing in sweatshops .
Contemporary slavery, divided by country.This covers institutional slavery that continues to occur in present-day society. Estimates of the number of enslaved people today range from around 38 million to 49.6 million, depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition of slavery being used.
Although slavery continued to persist in some countries after these documents were written – namely, the United States, in which slavery continued until the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 – the underlying norm of this right is present. Through customary practice and the abolition of slavery, the international community has ...
A History of Negro Slavery in New York, Syracuse University Press, 1966; Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: Norton, 1975. Olwell, Robert. Masters, Slaves, & Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740–1790 (1998).