TED演讲:见证现代奴役的照片(2)

We started talking about slavery, and really,

我们聊起了奴隶制度,

I started learning about slavery,

而此时我才开始真正了解奴役的现实,

for I had certainly known it existed in the world,

虽然我一直都知道世上奴隶制尚存,

but not to such a degree.

但完全不知道事态的严重性。

After we finished talking, I felt so horrible and honestly ashamed at my own lack of knowledge of this atrocity in my own lifetime, and I thought,

在我们的谈话结束后,我感觉非常的糟糕并且为自己对这样残暴的现象缺乏认知感觉到惭愧,

if I don't know, how many other people don't know?

我不知道,还有多少人也一样不知道?

It started burning a hole in my stomach, so within weeks,

这个想法让我坐立难安,

I flew down to Los Angeles to meet with the director of Free the Slaves and offer them my help.

几周后我就飞去了洛杉矶去见Free The Slaves组织的负责人,想要有所作为。

Thus began my journey into modern day slavery.

由此开始了我深入现代奴隶制度的旅程。

Oddly, I had been to many of these places before.

奇怪的是,那些地方我都去过。

Some I even considered like my second home.

有的我还把他们当成是我的第二故乡。

But this time, I would see the skeletons hidden in the closet.

但是这一次,我要去挖掘那些见不得光的秘密。

A conservative estimate tells us there are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today.

据保守估计当今全世界有超过2700万人被奴役。

That's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.

这个数字是在跨大西洋奴隶贸易中从非洲被贩卖的黑奴总数的两倍。

A hundred and fifty years ago, an agricultural slave cost about three times the annual salary of an American worker.

150年前,一个农奴的价格抵得上美国一名普通工人年薪的三倍。

That equates to about $50,000 in today's money.

相当于今天的5万美金。

Yet today, entire families can be enslaved for generations over a debt as small as $18.

但是在今天,一整个家庭被世代奴役的代价可能就只有18美金的欠债。

Astonishingly, slavery generates profits of more than $13 billion worldwide each year.

让人震惊的是,奴隶在全球产生的利润每年超过130亿美金。

在过去两年的时间里,摄影师丽萨.克里斯汀跑遍世界,记录了今天还存在的奴隶制度让人无法忍受的残酷现实。她分享了令人难忘的美丽影像:刚果的矿工,尼泊尔的砖工……揭露了全球2700万个被奴役灵魂的困境。


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