Thirteenth Amendment Archives

19Aug

By The Bougie Aunt4345 Comments

Education, Human Trafficking

Debt Bondage Is Hidden in Plain Sight

The Bougie Aunt | Published 2:00 p.m. E.T. August 19, 2020 10 minute read SUPPORT DEBT BONDAGE WORKERS BY CLICKING ON THE LINKS! WHAT IS DEBT BONDAGE? Debt bondage, also called bonded labor, is where a worker enters themselves into slavery through accepting a loan or falling heir to a debt. When a worker accepts a loan, it is usually through false promises by an employer that the worker can reimburse him/her. However, as time passes, and more debt acquires, workers find themselves in slavery - hidden in plain sight. If the worker was not able to reimburse their employer by their death, usually the employer will pass the debt onto a family member. Thus, making debt bondage generational. HISTORICAL CONNECTIONS TO DEBT BONDAGE Involuntary servit...

The Untold Truth of Labor Trafficking

The Bougie Aunt | Published 9:00 p.m. E.T. August 15, 2020 10 minute read SUPPORT LABOR TRAFFICKING VICTIMS BY CLICKING ON THE LINKS! WHAT IS LABOR TRAFFICKING? Labor trafficking is a type of human trafficking where victims are instructed to perform activities through the usage of fraud, coercion, or force. Labor trafficking occurs in both the illegal and legal sectors of economies. The hot spot sectors are the following: agriculture, construction, electronics manufacturing, mining/fishing/forestry, textile and apparel manufacturing, transportation, and warehousing. The industries where labor trafficking is prevalent is alarming because most of them can be further categorized into private sectors. And, every single industry listed is vital f...

Juneteenth: An Uncelebrated Holiday

The Bougie Aunt | Published 12:00 a.m. E.T. June 19, 2020 The year is 1863, you are an African-American slave, and President Abraham Lincoln just issued the Emancipation Proclamation. You are ecstatic because that automatically means you and your other slave companions are all released from the bonds of slavery, right? No, you are completely wrong. But I can reason why, as the Emancipation Proclamation is often misunderstood, and consequently, taught wrong in schools. Since the Eurocentric narrative shapes the United States’s history of slavery to seem like a linear path where the starting point is the Transatlantic Slave Trade and cuts off immediately after Martin Luther King Jr. had his Kumbaya moment (that has increasingly become more whitewashed as the years pass), the...