{"id":409,"date":"2007-03-25T06:36:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T05:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=409"},"modified":"2007-03-25T06:36:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-25T05:36:23","slug":"200-years-without-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"200 years without slavery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we mark the 200th anniversary of Britain&#8217;s abolition of the slave trade. The abolition of slavery &#8211; more accurately, the making illegal of the slave trade &#8211; was a gradual process. The Danes anticipated British abolition by three years in 1804. The slave trade became illegal for the United States in 1808; the Dutch outlawed it in 1814; under British pressure, most of the other maritime nations of Europe followed suit; but the final abolition of slavery in Cuba and Brazil was not until the 1880s.<br \/>\nIn truth, however, forms of slavery have never gone away.The US-based organisation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freetheslaves.net\/\">Free The Slaves<\/a> believes that there are around 27M slaves in the world today &#8211; more than ever in history.<br \/>\nThe vast majority of the world\u2019s slaves are in South Asia, especially India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Africa and South America both have large numbers of slaves in some areas, and the recent increase in human trafficking is bringing slavery to many countries in Europe, North America and South-east Asia.<br \/>\nIn this <a href=\"http:\/\/freetheslaves.net\/slavery\/introduction\/\">introduction to modern slavery<\/a>, the organisation  Free The Slaves explains the three trends which have contributed most to the rise of slavery in the modern world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we mark the 200th anniversary of Britain&#8217;s abolition of the slave trade. The abolition of slavery &#8211; more accurately, the making illegal of the slave trade &#8211; was a gradual process. The Danes anticipated British abolition by three years in 1804. The slave trade became illegal for the United States in 1808; the Dutch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}