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Trafficking is the violation of human rights Christians for a better and the third largest and fastest growing tomorrow end now! criminal activity in the world. Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of Hundreds of children as young as six years old, like this all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge one in the photo, are trafficked every year from Africa, righteously, defend the rights of the poor Asia and Eastern Europe. They are brought into the UK and needy. (Proverbs 31: 8-9). for sexual exploitation and to be used as “slave labour” in sweatshops, private homes and cannabis factories. Photo: © Anti-Slavery Source: ECPAT UK. International. In 1998 trade unions, non- & Slavery Photo: A girl entering a governmental garden run by a organisations, the Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Japanese NGO for general public and street children in working children from Marking 200 years from the Abolition Kibera one of the 92 countries came biggest shanty towns together to support of in Africa. Copyright © the Global March Y.Kunimori / Exile Against . “Are not slaves, as well as others, men? Have they Images, Join the campaign against slavery today: not human souls, human faculties, and human www.exileimages.co.uk Make your voice heard, campaign passions? . . . I abhor the principles, upon which it and write to authorities. [slavery] is either justified or founded”. George Wallace, System of the Principles For further information contact: A Home Office study found that in 1998 up to 1,420 of the Law of Scotland 1760. Wallace was a Scottish Jurist. women were trafficked into the UK for sexual Anti-Slavery International Thomas Clarkson House, The Stableyard, Broomgrove Rd, London SW9 9TL exploitation and over £1 Billion a year is generated from www.antislavery.org sex trafficking in the UK. It is estimated that dozens of Churches Commission for Racial Justice women are being used as sex slaves every year across Bastille Court, 2 Paris Garden, London SE1 8ND www.ctbi.org.uk Scotland. Set all Free Churches Together in England, 27 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9HH www.setallfree.net Why does Maria Trafficking for sexual exploitation: from Lithuania have CHASTE, PO Box 983, Cambridge, CB3 8WY www.chaste.org.uk to say: “I signed a contract with an Photo: Return of unaccompanied agency promising Cambodian me a good job. My children, trafficked dreams turned to to Thailand to beg dust. I was raped on the street, at and abused by the Krousar Thmey 100’s of men in compound. © The Old Bathgate Academy was built in 1833 with money from John every imaginable William Barriga, Newland who made his fortune in Jamaica from slave-trading and sugar- way. Don’t feel IOM 1998, www.iom.int plantation. Newland’s Day is still marked every June in Bathgate with a safe. I feel fright- procession from the Old Academy Building. In the past when it rained ened hearing during the celebration people used to say that those were footsteps, or in About us ‘darkies’ tears’. Photo: Nelu Balaj the dark”. Action of Churches Together in Scotland 7 Forrester Lodge, Inglewood House, Alloa, FK10 © Action of Churches Photo: © IOM 2003, 2HU, www.acts-scotland.org, Iurie Foca, www.iom.int Tel 01259216980, Fax 01259215964 Together in Scotland The Slave Trade Scots in the Struggle Modern Day ‘Slavery’

In 1695 an African trading company was set up in to abolish the Slave trade While the Trans- Edinburgh and sent out a to Africa. at home and abroad was sanctioned by governments, millions of people around the world today are being Slaves were hunted in Africa and were marched to Many Scots were at the forefront sold and forced to live as slaves: the coast in shackles, then shipped to the of abolition movement. An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked Americas in dreadful conditions Rev Robert Walker, each year around the world (UN). the skating minister in Image: Gang Child : It is estimated that around 179 million the famous portrait, of Captives, children around the world are affected by the worst form of persuaded the presby- D & C child labour. Livingstone, tery of Edinburgh in Narrative of February 1788 to peti- Fishing boys drawing nets under the supervision of a “slave an Expedition tion for ending of master” in a small fishing community in West Africa. The to the Slave Trade trafficked children, mostly boys aged between five and Zambezi, fourteen are forced to work from dawn to dusk, casting and 1865. © Sir Henry Raeburn, drawing nets. National Revd Dr Robert Walker Library of (1755 - 1808) Skating on Scotland Duddingston Loch © National Gallery of Scotland

After the Act of Union of England and Scotland in 1707 In 1772 Joseph Knight, who was a slave born in Africa and Glasgow drew on the slave trade to increase its wealth. sold in Jamaica, challenged his owner John Wedderburn in The city prospered as a result of commerce with slave- Perth and in 1778 a majority of judges in the produced tobacco and sugar from plantations. Edinburgh ruled that Knight’s slavery was Between 1540 and 1850 an estimated 15 million Africans unlawful on the principles of freedom and natural rights. were transported to the Americas. Special ships were built to carry the slaves across the Atlantic. Ships were In 1792 156 petitions, one third of the British total, came overloaded to maximise the profit. The slaves were from Scotland – from Kirkwall to Kirkcudbright – calling on Photo: © Jean-Philippe Chauzy, IOM 2003, www.iom.int chained together and had very little room to move. the British Government to end the Slave Trade. Forced and bonded labour and descent based slavery: It is Rev. James Ramsay (1733-1789), a naval physician and estimated that 20 million people around the world today Episcopal priest from Fraserburgh who was driven out of St. are in bonded labour forced to work for their masters. In Kitts by slave-owners because of his ‘humane’ treatment of some parts of the world there are still people who become slaves, provided William Wilberforce with some of the slave by being born in an ethnic group, caste or social status. earliest evidence on the (Antislavery International) horrors of the Slave Trade. Boulboulou was taken from her parents, who were also in slavery, at the age of 4 in 1984, and David Livingstone (1813- sold on for a few kilos of semolina, 1873), physician, explorer tea and sugar. She was forced to and missionary, informed marry and had her daughter taken the people in Britain away from her and given as a about the impact of Slave wedding gift to her master’s Trade on people in Africa daughter. She managed to run and he sought to fight from her master and was later Image: Plan and section of a Slave Ship, from C B Wadstrom, slavery by seeking to take reunited with her daughter. An Essay on Colonization, 1795. © National Library of Scotland Christianity and com- merce to Africa. Many slave masters and owners in the Caribbean Photo: Boulboulou, former slave in Niger © Sarah Williams/ were Scottish. In 1817 30% of slaves in Jamaica Portrait of David Livingstone © Anti-Slavery International were owned by Scots. David Livingstone Centre