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ABOUT
THE SOCIETY
The Society, which originated in
1983, is the second oldest anti-slavery organization in
the English-speaking world. John Clarkson, one of members of its Board
of Governors, is a direct descendant of
Thomas Clarkson,
who was a leading member of three earlier anti-slavery
organizations:
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the
Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
(later, the Society for the Abolition of the Slave
Trade) founded in 1787;
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the
Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of
Slavery throughout the British Dominions, founded in
1807; and
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the
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, founded in
1839.
The
aims of the Society are:
slaves,
child slaves, bonded laborers, bonded child laborers,
hierodulic (ie, temple or sacred) child prostitutes,
child laborers and the victims of the international
traffic in women and children for the purpose of
prostitution, as well as the suppression of these
practices and institutions.
THE
ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY — A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS.
No one hears the terrified screams of these children
— some as young as 3, 4 or 5 years — when their
master beats or whips them, burns their bare bodies with
cigarettes, brands them with red-hot irons, or rapes
them.
No-one
hears their cries as they are starved or kept locked in
cupboards for days on end, or chained up.
Change will not occur overnight. But it will never
change until governments and legislatures around the
world, responding to world public opinion outraged by
the worst abuses of child labor, shoulder their
responsibilities for these children by taking action to
suppress slavery in all its insidious forms.
As
long as the West is silent, the governments of these
countries will continue to avert their eyes from the
plight of these children.
As
long as we do not care whether or not the products which
we purchase are made by child labor, these governments
will continue to close their ears to the screams of
these children.
THE
SOCIETY’S MISSION AND HISTORIC ROLE. The
Anti-Slavery Society, in discharging its historic role
for the most wretched and the most oppressed — child
slaves, bonded child laborers and child laborers —
works for the relief of their suffering, their
emancipation or rescue, and their subsequent social
reintegration after they have been released or rescued,
as well as the suppression of these practices and
institutions.
Last Updated
April 03, 2007
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