Today, shocking new evidence on how forced labor mass transfers is one of the key methods of the Chinese genocide against the Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other minorities:
The global developments around mass forced labour in China, including as a component of the Uyghur genocide, continue to arrive, blow by blow: Here is a quick, incomplete update.
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On Tuesday, February 09, 2021, from 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM celebrate Black History Month with author Rick Geffken as he virtually guides us through his new book Stories of Slavery in New Jersey. Readers will be fascinated and probably surprised at the revelation that New Jersey, in 1866, was the last northern state to abolish slavery. Geffken will analyze this fact and much more as he leads us through this fascinating look at New Jersey's relationship with slavery.
In response to the current crisis of coerced labor in Xinjiang/East Turkestan Region in China, H-Slavery has created his page to hold resources, discussions, and related content. The top table contains all material published to H-Slavery on this topic using the keyword "Slavery in Xinjiang" while the bottom table captures content from across H-Net's many networks using a sequence of keywords.
Dear All,
Let me add my thanks to Magnus and Laura for providing this information. There is no reason why H-Slavery cannot build a page tracking this particular crisis, modern slavery and human trafficking more generally, or both if that's helpful. Just a reminder to our readers that H-Slavery is staffed by an all-volunteer force of academic editors and that there is no reason we cannot bring on additional contributors to help cover this topic. We can be reached at editorial-slavery@mail.h-net.org.
Best wishes,
Magnus, Thank you sincerely for calling attention to the vast system of forced labor of Uyghur and other minoritized citizens in Xinjiang/East Turkestan Region in China. As Magnus mentioned, this system is effected through a collaboration between the Chinese government and corporations. Many US, EU, and UK corporations are benefiting from the enslavement of people from Xinjiang/East Turkestan, though almost all of them deny knowledge of their supply chain connections to this system.
Dear Colleague,
A new challenge for slavery research everywhere is now posed by the hard evidence of how China's government is organizing mass slavery of targeted indigenous people, as part of their racist campaign against the Uyghur, Kazakh and other ethnic minorities of China's western Uyghur region, known in Chinese as Xinjiang (lit. 'New conquest'), ca 15 million people in total.
