“Social scientists estimate that 15 to 30 percent, or, "[a]s many as 600,000 to 1.2 million slaves" in antebellum America were Muslims. 46 percent of the slaves in the antebellum South were kidnapped from Africa's western regions, which boasted "significant numbers of Muslims".” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the International Labour Organization estimated that in 2012 there were 20.9 million people in forced labor worldwide, and 26 percent of those slaves were children.1 The number is roughly equivalent to the number of Africans in slavery during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.” — Johnny Carr Copy Share Image