Slide Show Reactions

Make your comments about the slide show photographs. Do these children have human and/or civil rights?

Comments

[Katie Johnson]

The children that are taken into slavery are born with human rights and they should not be taken fron them. The rights are given to you by God and therefor are not yours to give away. If you cannot give your rights away then no one can take them from you and if they try to then they are defying God.
Forcing children to do work that you would not do yourself is just flat out wrong and the thought that there are people that are soing that in our world today is so sad. Seeing all of the scares and the young children beeing beaten just leaves me breathless. People who think that they can control someone else and force them to do work that they are too lazy to do themselves is just sickening. I guess the real question is WHY, why do people feel the need to take charge over other people?

[Travis Benner]

I dont reallly think that they have any rights. I mean they do have rights but they are taken away from them . I think that if they werent slaves they would have more rights. Well they dont really have the right to live. They cant just live. In order to live they have to do what there master tells them to and if they dont they are killed. So therefore there rights are postponed or (how ever you spell that)

[Trevor]

The movie was disgusting with the slavery. It was sad. It looked like a living hell for those kids having to make the rugs.

[Joe Vardaro]

These children really dont have civil/human rights they are tricked and/or lied to to get them over to the plantations. they work for hours, years with no pay and a house that is bearly better than sleeping outside. i think its horible that this man (the slavedriver) can just take advantage of these kids and beat them to work because hes to greedy to pay them and hes to lazy to help them or work his own farm

[Cody ludwig]

EVERYBODY has civil rights but that dosnt mean there goin to be acknowledged or brought up, HEY lets go tell my slave workers they have rights and i can be put in jail for doin this GOOD IDEA!

[jacob snyder]

i thaught that the slave traders can stand the prosess of beating children was discusting. i am surprised that they dont die of guilt when you beat some one that is almostthirty years younger.

[Rianne Stowell]

Those pictures were soooooooo shocking! It is disgusting how horrible fellow human beings are treated. What ever happened to us all being equal? This simply must be stopped. I am just so upset. I could not imagine living in a mud hut with one window. Think if you are clausterfobic. That would be a nightmare. It is so unsanitary. How can these people live with themselves?

[Brittany Ross]

Of course they have rights, you always have natural rights when your born. We've learned that they can't be taken away, but only "disabled". Right now they're treated like dog poop and they don't even get paid for it. Since some owners don't make enough money to pay them, maybe they could just pay 5% of the money they make to each of the workers. If they won't pay them, atleast treat them better, feed them more, and let them work less.

[Kate Ebel]

I thought that the slide show was full of terrible things. All of the boys are being forced to labor for nothing and there are so many of them. All of the slavers are so terrible and then they publically deny that they were mistreating the boys. The slaves have just as many rights as anyone else, but they aren't treated like. They have just as many rights as the slavers do, so the slavers don't have any right to make those boys labor. All the boys have pretty much the same story too. They all went to find work to support their families and were told they could work on a plantation and make around $180 a year. To them it sounded like a great opportunity. They go there and work long hours and find that they aren't getting payed. They can't get away because they don't know where they are and they are watched closely. Also if they get away they won't be paid. I thought that the slide show showed the real truth of slavery and the horrors behind it.

[Zach Auteri 6C]

These children have no rights whatsoever. They are locked in rooms all day and are only aloud to comeout to work. They barely ever eat, they have to go to the bathroom in a cup, and they get beaten to work for no pay at all. The only right I see is the right to be a slave.

[Brooke Borneman]

I still think that these children have their rights but they are just disabled against their will. The pictures are just disgusting. Their anguish is shown in just those few pictures. The saying a picture is worth a thousand words is very true. Not even a thousand words could describe their suffering and how they would feel if they were saved. These children did nothing to deserve what they are being put through. I hope that the ways that we mentioned to save these people in the blog before will help them and save them from this suffereing.

[Alicia Molnar]

I beleive that the amount of rights of the children slaves are very slim. I mean, the right to live has basically been taken away from them, because if they don't work, or do what the factory/slave owners tell them... most of them are beaten to death. It's a horrible thought, but it's true. The pictures show just how much pain and suffering the children go through when they are being forced to do something for absolutely nothing... no pay, no praise... instead, they get beaten, anf FORCED to work harder for the benefit of the owner. Money... why does our world even have it? it has caused so many problems it's not even funny. Slavery... is a huge one!

[Amanda Moretz]

After viewing these slide shows, I have grown much more appreciative of my life in the United States. It was horrid to see the the boys locked in a room barely large enough for a dog. They work profusely day in and day out, and their reward at best is a tiny cup of greul. All of the workers had looks of great distress and depression written on their skinny faces. Their bodies looked limp due to malnutrition and torture. The slave owners had looks of hatred in their eyes and grim smugs on their faces. You could see that they felt ro regret or sympathy toward their laborers. When the slide show jumped to the cady fair in Chicago, it really threw me for a loop. I suppose that I take many things for granted, as do most American citizens. We have lavish buildings with tiled floors and decorations. These poor children have stench ridden cages and dirt to sleep on.

As for whether or not these boys have
human and civil rights, that is easy. These boys are basically being denied of life. They are treated like animals and could not have rights even if it was their utmost desire. They are being bought and sold, and when sold, are giving up all of their freedom. They do not have the right of free speech, for if they spoke their mind they would be beaten. Their human rights are being completely destroyed. They are being forced into starvation and inadequate living conditions. There are no laws to protect them, and have no one to go to in times of distress.

[Sam Krivin]

This is horrible! I can't believe the way these poor children are being treated! These children definatly do not have human and civil rights. They are being treated like animals! Just from the movie and the slide shows alone, I think that all of these slave owners should either be put in jail for 35 to 40 years or should be locked away in a maximum security prison in another country. I think that if the slave owners don't get another job, they should all suffer the consequences. So, no I don't think the slaves have any rights at all, except to be whipped, abused, and tormented.

[Rachel Scott]

Well...

As far as equality goes...hardly any. These children/young adults, were not treated as equals. I don't think that they had the aspect of people looking down on them as much as being treated badly. I don't think that the masters or transporters consider themselves any better than the slaves, they just look upon them as a way to get work done and still have enough money to be able to put food on the table. But they were treated as worse.

They were deprived of many human rights as we know them, but seeing the pictures of the kidz after they had been freed and sent back home, the living conditions there, didnt look much worse than those at the slaver's farm. I think that they had been accustomed to bad living conditions, and maybe bad food. Probably the main things that they were deprived of was the way in which they were treated. Someone who loved them, wanted the best for them, and tried hard to improve their living conditions, as opposed to someone who didnt care about them, someone who only kept them for their own good, and someone who probably woudnt improve their living conditions even if they were able to.

[Kristofer Rivers 6C]

These pictures are just one more shocking thing about slavery. I think that they really wake us up and see what is happening. To answer the question, I feel that these do and don't have human civil rights. I will explain what I mean. I first feel that they have the rights because they are humans and each human is garenteed their rights. So, deep down inside, they still have their rights. The thing is that when they are becoming slaves their rights are being taken away so now they don't really have rights. The owners take away these rights from them, but at the same time they have their rights deep down inside. Rights can't be taken away, what is happening is that they are not able to have use those rights. They still have them but they don't. This is something that could go either way. It all depends on how you look at it.

After doing the reading and looking at the slide show I really have noticed that the owners are denying that they are taking away these peoples rights when they have just been caught doing it. It is like a little kid who has cookie crumbs all over his mouth and when his parents ask him if he has been eating the cookies he says no. We're proving them guilty, but were not taking enough action. If you think about it. If the owners would give the slaves their rights then there wouldn't be a problem or slaves, but that happening is nearly impossible. The only way that these people will be able to have their rights and use them will be when they leave these slave owners. Until then they are being denied their rights. They deserve their rights too.
We should all be thankful of where we live and that we have are rights. If you ever think that where you live is horrible I know some slaves that would glady trade. Just remember that you have it nice and there are people who live ways that you could never imagine.

[Robert Schantzenbach]

All of these children have human and civil rights. but that dosn't mean that they will be aknoleged. The childrens rights can't be taken away but they are disabled. These children work for them and do all the work and there owners still treat them like crap. They could at least feed them and take care of them.

[Bryan Holzer]

Robert, that is the word "slave" for you, slaves are meant to be mistreaten to do work for their owners. They still get fed but just a small quantity. The owners of the plantations wouldn't be able to take care of every slave anyway due to the amount of slaves that there are in the plantations. If they had to take care of all the slaves they wouldn't make any profit on their chocolate at all.

[Leanna Arnold 6C]

The children in the slide show pictures do have both civil and human rights. All humans do. These children are just having their rights violated and disabled. There is no excuse for this, for everyone should have all of their human and civil rights. It is not in the hands of the slave masters to decide which rights their slaves may excercise.

The pictures where disturbing and it is hard to think that this is happening today. The children are treated like animals, and it is very wrong! When the slave owners disable their rights it is similar to what happened during the Holocaust. The modern day slaves are involved in the process of dehumanization.

This must be stopped!

[Lauren Rovetto]

These pictures are really shocking. As I learn more and more about this and as I see these pictures it really opens my eyes. I've looked over the pictures atleast a dozen times to try and capture this. It seems so horrible, almost as if it could never be true. The way these children are treated is really un-explianable.
These children have no rights at all. They
aren't treated like humans at all but more like machines which are just expected to keep going. In these pictures, you can see the desperateness in these childrens eyes.

[Nic King]

I don't think that they have many rights at all if not none at all. Most of the time they have to listen to and follow orders and if they don't they get "punished". These kids don't even get to say whatever they want. Most of the time they have to keep their thoughts to themselves or don't say anything at all. They also can't go very far. Once they finsh their work they normally are locked back up in a room with hardly anything in it. So they really don't have any rights right now.

[Kendall Rood]

I don't think these children have any rights. First off I think that the country needs more security so the children cannot be taken away in the first place, and the orphaned ones will be seen and put in a place where they will be properly cared for. i think it is horrible that children so young and naive are being mutilated and have no self-esteem. Their lives are so cruelly run when they are kept at the farms. Their housing is horrible, only a tiny room with a small box opening of a window for air and a little light. Basically their only food is corn paste not tasteful, but more importanlty, especially for the gruelling work they do, not nutritious.

[Kendall Rood]

I don't think these children have any rights. First off I think that the country needs more security so the children cannot be taken away in the first place, and the orphaned ones will be seen and put in a place where they will be properly cared for. i think it is horrible that children so young and naive are being mutilated and have no self-esteem. Their lives are so cruelly run when they are kept at the farms. Their housing is horrible, only a tiny room with a small box opening of a window for air and a little light. Basically their only food is corn paste not tasteful, but more importanlty, especially for the gruelling work they do, not nutritious.

[Nathaniel Shaffer]

Hmmm... let's think about the definition of a slave. "One who is forced to labor for no pay and usuially controlled by violence." It doesn't sound like they have any rights! Slavery is still ludicrous!

[Kendall Rood]

I don't think these children have any rights. First off I think that the country needs more security so the children cannot be taken away in the first place, and the orphaned ones will be seen and put in a place where they will be properly cared for. i think it is horrible that children so young and naive are being mutilated and have no self-esteem. Their lives are so cruelly run when they are kept at the farms. Their housing is horrible, only a tiny room with a small box opening of a window for air and a little light. Basically their only food is corn paste not tasteful, but more importanlty, especially for the gruelling work they do, not nutritious.