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From the Ted Talk by Lisa Kristine: Photos that bear witness to modern slavery
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In the Himalayas, I found children carrying stone for miles down mniotunuaos terrain to trucks wtiinag at roads below. The big sheets of slate were heavier than the children carrying them, and the kids heiotsd them from their hdeas using these handmade hansseres of sticks and rope and torn cloth. It's difficult to witness something so overwhelming. How can we acfeft something so insidious, yet so pervasive? Some don't even know they're enslaved, people working 16, 17 hours a day without any pay, because this has been the case all their lives. They have nothing to compare it to. When these viagerlls claimed their freedom, the slhdeeaolvrs burned down all of their houses. I mean, these people had nothing, and they were so petrified, they wanted to give up, but the woman in the center rallied for them to persevere, and abolitionists on the ground hleepd them get a quarry lease of their own, so that now they do the same back-breaking work, but they do it for themselves, and they get paid for it, and they do it in freedom.
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In the Himalayas, I found children carrying stone for miles down ___________ terrain to trucks _______ at roads below. The big sheets of slate were heavier than the children carrying them, and the kids _______ them from their _____ using these handmade _________ of sticks and rope and torn cloth. It's difficult to witness something so overwhelming. How can we ______ something so insidious, yet so pervasive? Some don't even know they're enslaved, people working 16, 17 hours a day without any pay, because this has been the case all their lives. They have nothing to compare it to. When these _________ claimed their freedom, the ____________ burned down all of their houses. I mean, these people had nothing, and they were so petrified, they wanted to give up, but the woman in the center rallied for them to persevere, and abolitionists on the ground ______ them get a quarry lease of their own, so that now they do the same back-breaking work, but they do it for themselves, and they get paid for it, and they do it in freedom.
Solution
- villagers
- heads
- harnesses
- mountainous
- hoisted
- waiting
- affect
- slaveholders
- helped
Original Text
In the Himalayas, I found children carrying stone for miles down mountainous terrain to trucks waiting at roads below. The big sheets of slate were heavier than the children carrying them, and the kids hoisted them from their heads using these handmade harnesses of sticks and rope and torn cloth. It's difficult to witness something so overwhelming. How can we affect something so insidious, yet so pervasive? Some don't even know they're enslaved, people working 16, 17 hours a day without any pay, because this has been the case all their lives. They have nothing to compare it to. When these villagers claimed their freedom, the slaveholders burned down all of their houses. I mean, these people had nothing, and they were so petrified, they wanted to give up, but the woman in the center rallied for them to persevere, and abolitionists on the ground helped them get a quarry lease of their own, so that now they do the same back-breaking work, but they do it for themselves, and they get paid for it, and they do it in freedom.
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