Lesson Six: Types of Modern-Day Slavery

Overview

The teacher will fully define each form of modern-day slavery using the charts generated on Section 2. Students will learn the geography of modern-day slavery. Students will use a world map to visually represent where each type of slavery exists. (Using the world map is a perfect time for a geography review of continents, countries, and capitals.)

Objective

Students will fully define each of the four types of modern-day slavery: forced labor, debt labor, chattel slavery, and child labor. Students will identify at least one country where each type of slavery exits.

Time Frame

15 minute: Directed lesson about forms of slavery
15 minute: Directed lesson about locations of slavery
15 minute: Independent work time
Total: 45 minutes

Materials

1. Chart of four types of slavery
2. World map
3. Photocopies of world maps for each student
4. Handout of the definitions of the four types of modern-day slavery

Procedure

1. Review the information on the class-generated chart of the types of slavery.

2. Teacher fully defines and explains each type of slavery. Use overhead to post definitions of types of modern day slavery.

• FORCED LABOR: When a person or group is forced to do work for little or no pay, usually by a government, an armed militia, or armed slavers.
• DEBT BONDAGE: A system where a person offers his/her own labor, or that of his/her family members, as a way of paying back a debt. The pay back time may last generations as a result of low pay, high interest, and/or cheating.
• CHATTEL SLAVERY: A system in which a person is wholly owned property and can be inherited or passed on, as property through the master's estate.
• CHILD LABOR: A system in which children are forced to work instead of going to school.

3. Teacher indicates where each type of slavery predominates. Use color-coded system.

• FORCED LABOR: India, Pakistan, Nepal - RED
• DEBT BONDAGE: Asian continent - YELLOW
• CHATTEL SLAVERY: Sudan, Mauritania - GREEN
• CHILD LABOR: India, Latin America - BLUE

4. Students create individual color-coded maps of where each type of slavery exists. Students identify countries and capitals in each of the geographic regions.

Follow-Up Activities

Students will create a large mural of world map, color-coded for the existence of each type of slavery. Students will display this mural in a prominent place in the school or community.

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