1. India has the largest slave population in the modern world with over 14 million slaves
Over 14 million adults and children are trapped in modern slavery in India today, a recent report has revealed, the most of any country in the world.
The 2014 Global Slavery Index collected data on 167 countries, each of which was cited as having some percentage of slavery affecting its population. In total, a staggering 35.8 million people are reportedly enslaved worldwide.
The three countries with the highest levels of slavery when population is taken into account were Mauritania with 4%, just under 4% in Uzbekistan, and Haiti’s 2.3%. Qatar, currently set to host the World Cup in 2022, was fourth with 1.4% of its population considered as living in slavery.
2. Part of the White House was built by slaves
While the White House Historical Association reports that the D.C. commissioners originally tried to bring cheap workers over from Europe to build the new capital, their recruitment efforts fell short. As a result, they forced local slaves to provide the labor, often renting workers from their masters for year-long periods of time.
3. The concept behind the word "cool" might come from the African word "itutu", brought to America by slavery
4. Slavery was not made a statutory offense in the UK until April 6, 2010
It's true that slavery wasn't legally abolished in Britain until recently, but that was only becase there weren't masses of slaves running around in Britain. Where there were slaves (i.e. in the colonies), then slavery was abolished. The fact that the law was only recently changed in mainland Britain was specifically to target women in the sex trade (to close a potential legal loophole that may have allowed sex trafficers to escape prosecution).
5. Slavery was abolished in Saudi Arabia and Yemen as recently as 1962.
6. About 4 million slaves were taken from Africa to Brazil, about 40% of all in the Americas
7. Over a million Europeans were captured and sold as slaves to North Africa between 1530 and 1780.
The Barbary pirates, sometimes called Barbary corsairs or Ottoman corsairs, were pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa, based primarily in the ports of Salé, Rabat, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, a term derived from the name of its Berber inhabitants. Their predation extended throughout the Mediterranean, south along West Africa's Atlantic seaboard and even South America,and into the North Atlantic as far north as Iceland, but they primarily operated in the western Mediterranean. In addition to seizing ships, they engaged in Razzias, raids on European coastal towns and villages, mainly in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal, but also in the British Isles,the Netherlands and as far away as Iceland.The main purpose of their attacks was to capture Christian slaves for the Ottoman slave trade as well as the general Muslim slavery market in North Africa and the Middle East.
8. A former slave ship captain wrote the song "Amazing Grace."
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written by the English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton (1725–1807).
Newton wrote the words from personal experience. He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life's path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion by his recalcitrant insubordination. He was pressed (conscripted) into service in the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service, he became involved in the Atlantic slave trade.
9. There are more people in slavery today than at any time in human history
The estimated number of people in slavery - 27 million - is more than double the total number believed to have been taken from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade.
Ship records make it possible to estimate the number of slaves transported from Africa to the Americas and the Caribbean, from the 16th Century until the trade was banned in 1807 - and the figure is about 12.5 million people.
The figure of 27 million slaves today comes from researcher Kevin Bales, of Free the Slaves - who blames the huge figure on rapid population growth, poverty and government corruption.
10. In Missouri during the 1860s, a "snowflake" was a person who was opposed to the abolition of slavery.
In Missouri in the early 1860s, a 'snowflake' was a person who was opposed to the abolition of slavery—the implication of the name being that such people valued white people over black people. This use seems not to have endured.
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