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Title: Freedom


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Freedom quiz
  • True or false? People used to take people from
    Africa and sell them as slaves to work in America
    and the Caribbean.
  • True
  • True or false? Some Christians believed God
    agreed with the slave trade.
  • True
  • True or false? Christians had nothing to do with
    the end of the slave trade.
  • False

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Freedom quiz
  • How many years is it since the slave trade was
    abolished?
  • 200 years
  • How many slaves are there inthe world today?
  • More than 12 million
  • How many children are trafficked each year?
  • 1.2 million

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Slavery the facts
  • In 1807 there were 4 million slaves. Today there
    are 12 million. (UNICEF 2003)
  • An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked
    each year. (UNICEF 2003 )
  • 6-800,000 people are trafficked across
    international borders each year. (US Department
    of State Trafficking in Persons Report 2005)
  • Approximately 80 per cent are women and girls.
    (US Department of State Trafficking in Persons
    Report 2005)
  • Human trafficking is the third largest source of
    income in organised crime after arms and drug
    trafficking. (UN office on drugs and crime.)

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William Wilberforce
  • Christian MP who lived 17591833
  • Prime Minister William Pitt suggested Wilberforce
    take up the cause of abolishing slavery
  • 1789 - first tried to passabolition bill
  • 1807 - abolition bill wasfinally passed

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Olaudah Equiano
  • Olaudah Equiano lived 17451797
  • Kidnapped to be a slave at age 10
  • Took 20 years to buy his freedom
  • Campaigned in Britain for the abolition of slavery

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Shineys story
  • Shiney had a traumatic childhood
  • She was trafficked into Mumbaisred light
    district
  • She was forced to work as a prostitute for nine
    years
  • Jesus has transformed her life thanks to
    church-based worksupported by Tearfund

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What is Tearfund doing?
  • Supporting local Christian organisations involved
    in anti-trafficking work in Bangladesh, Cambodia,
    India, Nepal, Philippines and Uganda
  • Campaigning to reduce human trafficking and
    punish perpetrators
  • Raising awareness of the risks of trafficking
  • Caring for those exploited through trafficking

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Inspirational words
  • Unless God has raised you up for this very
    thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of
    men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be
    against you?
  • John Wesley, writing to Wilberforce
  • What makes any event important, unless by its
    observation we become better and wiser, and learn
    to act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly
    before God?
  • Olaudah Equiano, former slave and campaigner
    against the slave trade

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Philemon
  • A passionate faith
  • A powerful seed
  • A personal sacrifice

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What can you do?
  • Use the Freedom leaflet to
  • give regularly
  • 17 a month could restore dignity for two
    trafficked girls every month
  • pray
  • campaign
  • send the Stop the traffik postcard
  • Micah Challenge support Blow the whistle Sunday
    20 May 2007 and hold our government
    accountable on the Millennium Development Goals

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  • Thank you for helping to bring justice for those
    trapped in modern day slavery.
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