Modern slavery is a global problem. We all need to work together to end it. #AntiSlaveryDay #EndHumanTrafficking #modernslavery pic.twitter.com/jykAwokYDQ

#IN_MEMORIAM: It being #AntiSlaveryDay, of the many men & women who actively campaigned in #Britain to bring an end to #slavery led by the likes of The Quakers, James Oglethorpe, Granville Sharp, Hannah More, William Wilberforce & many more banning slavery sales in 1807.

#IN_MEMORIAM: It being #AntiSlaveryDay, of the many #British men who gave their lives in HM #Royal_Navy bringing an end to #slavery on the high seas.

#IN_MEMORIAM: It being #AntiSlaveryDay, of the some 330,000 men & women, mostly white, who died in the #American #Civil_War on the #Unionist side opposing #slavery in the #Confederate territories. Upto 750,000 are believed to have died in total in the 4 years of the war to 1865

#IN_MEMORIAM: It being #AntiSlaveryDay, of the many young men & women seized from #Africa by the Black tribal leaders & traders & sold into slavery who did not survive transportation to new homes in the #Caribean & #America where some flourished & became wealthy.

#IN_MEMORIAM: It being #AntiSlaveryDay, of the many young men & women seized from #Britain by the #Romans & sold into slavery in #Rome & other areas of the #Roman_Empire

#IN_MEMORIAM: It being #AntiSlaveryDay, of the many young men & women seized from #Britain‘s #South_Coast, #Cornwall, #Severn_Estuary & South & West #Wales by the traders of the #Barbary_Coast & sold into slavery in #North_Africa.