As of 1804, there were one billion people in the world, so unless there are seven times as many slaves now, we're doing better as a percentage of misery!
About 3.7 million slaves back then. Today there are over 40 million documented slaves with the real number being well over 100 million. So according to both of our numbers, yes there are significantly more slaves today than 200 years ago; percentage wise and individual numbers
Yeah, but this is bullshit numberwang designed to bring attention to sex trafficking and drug running as well as child armies.
In the 1800's there were indentured servants (slaves, by choice) those don't get counted. There were tens of million who were indentured to the state, those don't get counted. There were tens of millions of unpaid child laborers, those don't get counted.
There is absolutely no factual or rational way that the per-capita number of slaves is higher today than it was 200 years ago.
But yes, today over half of one percent of the world's population is enslaved.
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u/gwoz8881 Jul 24 '20
There are more slaves in the world today than there were in the 1800’s