10 FACT ABOUT SLAVERY

1 The average of cost of a slave in America in 1850 was about $400(about $12,000 in today's money).
2 In 1452, Pope Nicholas V Issued a palpal bull allowing the King of Portugal to enslave Pagans.
3 During the ancient Roman winter festival of Saturnalla, slaves and their owners swapped roles.
4 When Britian abolished slavery, compensation was paid to 46,000 slave owners, The 800,000 freed slaves received nothing.

5 The word ''slave'' and ''slaves'' occur only once each in the KIng james Bible.
6 The word ''slave'' originally came from the Slavonic population of Eastern Europe, who were often enslaved in the middle ages.
7 Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire in 1833 but the Modern Slavery Act, outlawing human trafficking and fored labour, was only passed in 2015.
8 From 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million slaves were shipped from Africa to the Americas with only about 10.7 million survived the journey,
9 Including fored labour and human trafficking there are around 30,000 slaves in the world today, which is more than at any time history.
10 Throug Shakespeare's plays, written around the same time, mention them around 180 times.










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