In that case I represent the mother of a five-year-old Yazidi child who was enslaved, chained outdoors to a window and left to slowly die of thirst in the scorching heat.
Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you, who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel!
It may be illegal the world over, but it still goes on in several different forms. And since 2011, CNN`s Freedom Project has worked to inform of where and how people are still being enslaved or trafficked.
The pro-slavery Southern states were worried that they would be constantly outvoted, and wanted enslaved people to count in determining the population.
Do you think it's not the people's job to like criticize the government if they're doing something really wrong like killing people or enslaving more people?
In 1863, she became the first woman in United States history to plan and lead a military raid, liberating nearly 700 enslaved persons in South Carolina.
After the war, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution legally abolished slavery, while the 14th expanded citizenship and the 15th gave voting rights to formerly enslaved black men.