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The ACLU says prison workers in the U.S. produce about $2 billion a year in goods and commodities.

Slavery was, as Confederate vice president Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia noted, the ideological “corner-stone” of the Confederate government. Equally important, slave labor provided the physical cornerstone for the Confederate war effort. Civilian and military employers in Virginia hired slaves in increasing numbers over the course of the war. Most of Virginia’s slaves worked as agricultural laborers, and their wartime production helped feed both civilians and soldiers, particularly af...

Copenhagen to meet danish journalist mickey. he came across a direct link between slave work and a product on our daily shopping list chocolate. well ed actually it began in my local supermarket as a consumer i went down for buying a chocolate bar and at the supermarket. there were seven chocolate bass they were actually the same just just with different flavor and one of their its a chocolate bar had a fair trademark and i was just wondering ok you have seven chapters one is fair trade with abo...