Liberia 5. Civil War I: Slaves 6. Civil War II: Soldiers 7. Emancipation, 8. The Institution. Venture Smith buys his freedom , Elizabeth Keckley buys her freedom , How did enslaved blacks acquire enough money to purchase the freedom of themselves and their families?
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Use AmazonSmile while you shop on Amazon and Giving Assistant when you use other online retailers to donate to us while you shop! When I ask her questions about the marks on her arm, she says, "The lady did it to me with an electric wire.
As I later learn, this appears to be a standard punishment -- whipping restaveks with the sort of electric cord you might you use to plug in a toaster or a laptop. The translator explains, "If she doesn't go and pick up the water, they beat her up. If she doesn't sweep, beat her up. By the time we visit Ti Soeur at 10 a. After meeting Ti Souer, we decided to go find her parents, to get a sense of why they would give their child away.
Following a lead, we drive out of the throbbing, chaotic city, hours away, into the lush countryside. It's beautiful out here. We see clouds resting lazily in green valleys. We see women on their way to market, carrying impossibly large loads of goods on their heads. But you can't miss the deprivation: It's everywhere. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere -- the result of decades of bad, brutal, kleptocratic leadership, and also, many believe, negative interference from outside powers, including the United States.
Haiti's poverty is on full display as we pull up to the house where Ti Soeur's mother lives. It's a shack, housing three families. Nine children live here, including one who we see using a condom as a toy balloon. Ti Soeur's mother is named Lita Bellevue. After a few pleasantries, I ask her the obvious question. She tells us that Ti Soeur's birth father is dead. Her new husband, who is abusive, forced her to give the child away, she says, because they are too poor to take care of her.
However, the husband does not seem willing to part with the two young children he and Lita have had together. To help us better understand why parents make these sorts of decisions, we go see Jean-Etienne Charles, a local Pentecostal pastor who preaches against child slavery.
He's got a broad, happy face and a thriving church, complete with a school for local kids. But because they think that they cannot take care of them, they turn them to another person.
As a sign of how deeply entrenched this practice is, it turns out that the pastor's family has a girl living with them whom they took on to do domestic work. They have since legally adopted her and are putting her through school, as an example to the families who abuse child slaves. Now that we've learned that Ti Soeur is stuck between slavery and an abusive, unhappy home, we decide to try our luck with the Haitian government.
We go to the Department of Social Services and meet with several senior officials. We show them videotape of Ti Soeur's scars.
She promises to act as early as possible.
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