The Eight Photos we analyzed today all relate to the same issue: modern day slavery. Read the textual evidence (facts, statistics, personal anecdotes) below and match the picture that would best support the evidence.
· “Enveloped in temperatures of 130 degrees, men, women, children, entire families in fact, were cloaked in a blanket of dust, while mechanically stacking bricks on their head, up to 18 at a time…”
Photos: Example Photo #7- This photo matches this piece of evidence because it perfectly describes the heat, the dust, and the bricks that the men are carrying in the photo.
· “I'm 150 feet down an illegal mine shaft in Ghana. The air is thick with heat and dust, and it's hard to breathe. I can feel the brush of sweaty bodies passing me in the darkness, but I can't see much else.”
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· “The big sheets of slate were heavier than the children carrying them, and the kids hoisted them from their heads using these handmade harnesses of sticks and rope and torn cloth. It's difficult to witness something so overwhelming.”
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· “It's estimated that more than 4,000 children are enslaved on Lake Volta, the largest man-made lake in the world.”
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· “When they came out of the shaft, they were soaking wet from their own sweat. I remember looking into their tired, bloodshot eyes, for many of them had been underground for 72 hours. The shafts are up to 300 feet deep, and they carry out heavy bags of stone that later will be transported to another area, where the stone will be pounded so that they can extract the gold.”
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· The textile industry is another one we often think of when we hear about slave labor. I visited villages in India where entire families were enslaved in the silk trade.