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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.72,0:00:07.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm 150 feet down an illegal mine shaft in Ghana.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.12,0:00:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The air is thick with heat and dust,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.24,0:00:14.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's hard to breathe.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.65,0:00:17.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can feel the brush of sweaty bodies passing me
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.92,0:00:22.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the darkness, but I can't see much else.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.16,0:00:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hear voices talking, but mostly the shaft
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.13,0:00:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is this cacophony of men coughing,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.12,0:00:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stone being broken with primitive tools.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.03,0:00:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like the others, I wear a flickering, cheap flashlight
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.08,0:00:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tied to my head with this elastic, tattered band,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.88,0:00:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I can barely make out the slick tree limbs
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.22,0:00:49.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,holding up the walls of the three-foot square hole
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.25,0:00:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dropping hundreds of feet into the earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.88,0:00:56.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When my hand slips, I suddenly remember a miner
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.96,0:01:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had met days before who had lost his grip
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.24,0:01:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fell countless feet down that shaft.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.86,0:01:08.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I stand talking to you today,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.39,0:01:11.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these men are still deep in that hole,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.89,0:01:15.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,risking their lives without payment or compensation,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.41,0:01:18.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and often dying.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.55,0:01:23.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got to climb out of that hole, and I got to go home,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.74,0:01:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they likely never will, because they're trapped in slavery.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.92,0:01:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the last 28 years, I've been documenting
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.82,0:01:35.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,indigenous cultures in more than 70 countries
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.39,0:01:39.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on six continents, and in 2009 I had the great honor
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.18,0:01:43.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being the sole exhibitor at the Vancouver Peace Summit.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.59,0:01:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amongst all the astonishing people I met there,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.16,0:01:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.34,0:01:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dedicated to eradicating modern day slavery.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.66,0:01:58.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We started talking about slavery, and really,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.55,0:02:01.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started learning about slavery,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.42,0:02:04.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for I had certainly known it existed in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.62,0:02:07.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not to such a degree.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.64,0:02:11.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After we finished talking, I felt so horrible
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.38,0:02:14.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and honestly ashamed at my own lack of knowledge
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.75,0:02:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this atrocity in my own lifetime, and I thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.26,0:02:23.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I don't know, how many other people don't know?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.13,0:02:26.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It started burning a hole in my stomach, so within weeks,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.95,0:02:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I flew down to Los Angeles to meet with the director
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.92,0:02:33.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Free the Slaves and offer them my help.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.19,0:02:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thus began my journey into modern day slavery.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.76,0:02:40.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oddly, I had been to many of these places before.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.91,0:02:44.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some I even considered like my second home.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.39,0:02:51.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this time, I would see the skeletons hidden in the closet.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.82,0:02:54.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A conservative estimate tells us there are more than
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.13,0:02:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,27 million people enslaved in the world today.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.28,0:03:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's double the amount of people taken from Africa
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.76,0:03:05.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.89,0:03:09.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A hundred and fifty years ago, an agricultural slave
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.03,0:03:12.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cost about three times the annual salary
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.52,0:03:15.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of an American worker.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.27,0:03:19.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That equates to about $50,000 in today's money.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.26,0:03:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet today, entire families can be enslaved for generations
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.66,0:03:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over a debt as small as $18.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.52,0:03:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Astonishingly, slavery generates profits
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.56,0:03:37.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of more than $13 billion worldwide each year.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.30,0:03:40.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many have been tricked by false promises
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.15,0:03:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a good education, a better job, only to find
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.70,0:03:48.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they're forced to work without pay
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.21,0:03:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the threat of violence, and they cannot walk away.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.88,0:03:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today's slavery is about commerce,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.16,0:04:01.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the goods that enslaved people produce have value,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.19,0:04:06.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the people producing them are disposable.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.19,0:04:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Slavery exists everywhere, nearly, in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.58,0:04:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet it is illegal everywhere in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.54,0:04:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In India and Nepal, I was introduced to the brick kilns.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.33,0:04:25.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This strange and awesome sight was like
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.12,0:04:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,walking into ancient Egypt or Dante's Inferno.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.01,0:04:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enveloped in temperatures of 130 degrees,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.16,0:04:37.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,men, women, children, entire families in fact,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.26,0:04:40.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were cloaked in a heavy blanket of dust,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.41,0:04:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while mechanically stacking bricks on their head,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.03,0:04:46.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up to 18 at a time, and carrying them
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.15,0:04:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the scorching kilns to trucks hundreds of yards away.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.10,0:04:54.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deadened by monotony and exhaustion,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.63,0:05:00.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they work silently, doing this task over and over
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.21,0:05:03.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for 16 or 17 hours a day.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.57,0:05:07.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were no breaks for food, no water breaks,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.29,0:05:09.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the severe dehydration made urinating
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.84,0:05:12.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pretty much inconsequential.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.71,0:05:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So pervasive was the heat and the dust
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.14,0:05:18.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that my camera became too hot to even touch
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.89,0:05:21.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ceased working.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.34,0:05:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every 20 minutes, I'd have to run back to our cruiser
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.12,0:05:27.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to clean out my gear and run it under an air conditioner
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.47,0:05:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to revive it, and as I sat there,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.52,0:05:35.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought, my camera is getting far better treatment
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.13,0:05:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than these people.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.46,0:05:40.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back in the kilns, I wanted to cry,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.33,0:05:43.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the abolitionist next to me quickly grabbed me
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.51,0:05:47.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he said, "Lisa, don't do that. Just don't do that here."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.81,0:05:51.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he very clearly explained to me that emotional displays
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.70,0:05:54.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are very dangerous in a place like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.24,0:05:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just for me, but for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.09,0:06:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn't offer them any direct help.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.74,0:06:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn't give them money, nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.54,0:06:06.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn't a citizen of that country.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.33,0:06:09.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could get them in a worse situation
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.42,0:06:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than they were already in.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.20,0:06:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd have to rely on Free the Slaves to work
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.46,0:06:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within the system for their liberation,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.30,0:06:20.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I trusted that they would.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.77,0:06:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As for me, I'd have to wait until I got home
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.20,0:06:28.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to really feel my heartbreak.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.17,0:06:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Himalayas, I found children carrying stone
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.04,0:06:33.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for miles down mountainous terrain
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.79,0:06:36.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to trucks waiting at roads below.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.69,0:06:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The big sheets of slate were heavier
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.20,0:06:41.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the children carrying them,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.87,0:06:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the kids hoisted them from their heads
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.90,0:06:48.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using these handmade harnesses of sticks and rope
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.34,0:06:50.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and torn cloth.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.19,0:06:53.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's difficult to witness something so overwhelming.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.87,0:06:56.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can we affect something so insidious,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.51,0:06:59.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet so pervasive?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.72,0:07:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some don't even know they're enslaved,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.44,0:07:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people working 16, 17 hours a day without any pay,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.44,0:07:10.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because this has been the case all their lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.66,0:07:14.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have nothing to compare it to.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.94,0:07:18.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When these villagers claimed their freedom,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.31,0:07:23.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the slaveholders burned down all of their houses.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.73,0:07:25.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, these people had nothing,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.69,0:07:29.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they were so petrified, they wanted to give up,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.34,0:07:33.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the woman in the center rallied for them to persevere,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.38,0:07:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and abolitionists on the ground
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.88,0:07:37.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helped them get a quarry lease of their own,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.54,0:07:40.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that now they do the same back-breaking work,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.65,0:07:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they do it for themselves, and they get paid for it,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.16,0:07:48.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they do it in freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.58,0:07:50.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sex trafficking is what we often think of
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.65,0:07:52.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we hear the word slavery,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.55,0:07:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because of this worldwide awareness,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.51,0:07:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was warned that it would be difficult for me to work safely
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.65,0:08:00.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within this particular industry.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.47,0:08:03.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Kathmandu, I was escorted by women who had
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.31,0:08:06.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,previously been sex slaves themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.85,0:08:09.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They ushered me down a narrow set of stairs
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.20,0:08:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that led to this dirty, dimly fluorescent lit basement.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.82,0:08:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This wasn't a brothel, per se.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.65,0:08:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was more like a restaurant.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.96,0:08:21.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cabin restaurants, as they're known in the trade,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.22,0:08:23.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are venues for forced prostitution.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.84,0:08:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each has small, private rooms, where the slaves,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.88,0:08:29.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women, along with young girls and boys,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.51,0:08:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some as young as seven years old,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.28,0:08:34.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are forced to entertain the clients,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.28,0:08:38.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,encouraging them to buy more food and alcohol.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.06,0:08:41.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each cubicle is dark and dingy,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.09,0:08:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identified with a painted number on the wall,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.03,0:08:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and partitioned by plywood and a curtain.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.14,0:08:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The workers here often endure tragic sexual abuse
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.69,0:08:55.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the hands of their customers.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.27,0:08:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Standing in the near darkness, I remember feeling
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.34,0:09:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this quick, hot fear, and in that instant,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.42,0:09:04.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could only imagine what it must be like
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.77,0:09:07.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be trapped in that hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.43,0:09:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had only one way out: the stairs from where I'd come in.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.03,0:09:13.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were no back doors.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.89,0:09:16.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were no windows large enough to climb through.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.43,0:09:20.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These people have no escape at all,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.69,0:09:23.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as we take in such a difficult subject,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.75,0:09:28.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's important to note that slavery, including sex trafficking,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.36,0:09:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,occurs in our own backyard as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.29,0:09:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tens of hundreds of people are enslaved in agriculture,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.92,0:09:38.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in restaurants, in domestic servitude,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.59,0:09:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the list can go on.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.22,0:09:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recently, the New York Times reported that
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.86,0:09:49.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between 100,000 and 300,000 American children
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.66,0:09:53.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are sold into sex slavery every year.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.63,0:10:00.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all around us. We just don't see it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.17,0:10:03.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The textile industry is another one we often think of
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.55,0:10:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we hear about slave labor.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.44,0:10:10.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I visited villages in India where entire families were enslaved
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.76,0:10:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the silk trade.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.40,0:10:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a family portrait.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.70,0:10:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dyed black hands are the father, while the blue
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.58,0:10:22.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and red hands are his sons.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.37,0:10:25.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They mix dye in these big barrels,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.10,0:10:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they submerge the silk into the liquid up to their elbows,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.06,0:10:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the dye is toxic.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.02,0:10:37.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My interpreter told me their stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.33,0:10:40.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We have no freedom," they said.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.93,0:10:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We hope still, though, that we could leave this house
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.04,0:10:45.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someday and go someplace else
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.69,0:10:52.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we actually get paid for our dyeing."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.35,0:10:57.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's estimated that more than 4,000 children
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.29,0:10:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are enslaved on Lake Volta,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.45,0:11:03.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the largest man-made lake in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.54,0:11:06.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we first arrived, I went to have a quick look.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.51,0:11:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw what seemed to be a family fishing on a boat,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.88,0:11:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two older brothers, some younger kids, makes sense right?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.04,0:11:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wrong. They were all enslaved.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.09,0:11:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Children are taken from their families
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.92,0:11:23.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and trafficked and vanished,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.43,0:11:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're forced to work endless hours on these boats
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.34,0:11:30.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the lake, even though they do not know how to swim.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.89,0:11:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This young child is eight years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.22,0:11:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was trembling when our boat approached,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.88,0:11:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,frightened it would run over his tiny canoe.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.53,0:11:41.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was petrified he would be knocked in the water.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.87,0:11:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The skeletal tree limbs submerged in Lake Volta
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.16,0:11:49.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often catch the fishing nets, and weary,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.12,0:11:52.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,frightened children are thrown into the water
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.85,0:11:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to untether the lines.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.00,0:11:57.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of them drown.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.85,0:12:01.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For as long as he can recall, he's been forced to work
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.19,0:12:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the lake.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.36,0:12:06.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Terrified of his master, he will not run away,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.83,0:12:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and since he's been treated with cruelty all his life,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.32,0:12:12.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he passes that down to the younger slaves
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.75,0:12:15.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he manages.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.75,0:12:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I met these boys at five in the morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.86,0:12:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they were hauling in the last of their nets,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.32,0:12:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they had been working since 1 a.m.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.18,0:12:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the cold, windy night.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.76,0:12:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's important to note that these nets weigh
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.02,0:12:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more than a thousand pounds when they're full of fish.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.44,0:12:38.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to introduce you to Kofi.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.94,0:12:42.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kofi was rescued from a fishing village.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.19,0:12:44.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I met him at a shelter where Free the Slaves
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.78,0:12:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rehabilitates victims of slavery.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.71,0:12:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here he's seen taking a bath at the well,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.79,0:12:53.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pouring big buckets of water over his head,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.69,0:12:55.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the wonderful news is,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.61,0:12:57.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as you and I are sitting here talking today,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.61,0:13:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kofi has been reunited with his family,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.84,0:13:03.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what's even better, his family has been given tools
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.100,0:13:09.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make a living and to keep their children safe.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.72,0:13:14.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kofi is the embodiment of possibility.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.18,0:13:18.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who will he become because someone took a stand
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.75,0:13:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and made a difference in his life?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.34,0:13:24.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Driving down a road in Ghana
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.57,0:13:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with partners of Free the Slaves,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.66,0:13:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a fellow abolitionist on a moped suddenly sped up
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.70,0:13:32.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our cruiser and tapped on the window.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.64,0:13:37.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He told us to follow him down a dirt road into the jungle.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.42,0:13:40.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end of the road, he urged us out of the car,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.21,0:13:42.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and told the driver to quickly leave.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.89,0:13:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then he pointed toward this barely visible footpath,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.24,0:13:50.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and said, "This is the path, this is the path. Go."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.14,0:13:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we started down the path, we pushed aside the vines
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.80,0:13:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blocking the way, and after about an hour of walking in,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.60,0:14:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,found that the trail had become flooded by recent rains,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.13,0:14:04.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I hoisted the photo gear above my head
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.95,0:14:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we descended into these waters up to my chest.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.53,0:14:13.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After another two hours of hiking, the winding trail
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.32,0:14:17.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,abruptly ended at a clearing, and before us
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.61,0:14:19.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a mass of holes
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.63,0:14:23.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that could fit into the size of a football field,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.45,0:14:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all of them were full of enslaved people laboring.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.04,0:14:32.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many women had children strapped to their backs
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.19,0:14:34.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while they were panning for gold,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.23,0:14:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wading in water poisoned by mercury.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.53,0:14:43.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mercury is used in the extraction process.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.41,0:14:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These miners are enslaved in a mine shaft
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.56,0:14:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in another part of Ghana.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.64,0:14:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they came out of the shaft, they were soaking wet
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.46,0:14:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from their own sweat.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.74,0:14:58.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember looking into their tired, bloodshot eyes,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.74,0:15:04.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for many of them had been underground for 72 hours.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.48,0:15:08.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shafts are up to 300 feet deep, and they carry out
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.46,0:15:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heavy bags of stone that later will be transported
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.03,0:15:14.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to another area, where the stone will be pounded
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.63,0:15:18.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that they can extract the gold.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.57,0:15:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At first glance, the pounding site seems full
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.68,0:15:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of powerful men, but when we look closer,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.57,0:15:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we see some less fortunate working on the fringes,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.44,0:15:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and children too.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.58,0:15:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of them are victim to injury, illness and violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.72,0:15:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, it's very likely that this muscular person
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.70,0:15:50.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will end up like this one here, racked with tuberculosis
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.24,0:15:55.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and mercury poisoning in just a few years.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:55.21,0:15:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Manuru. When his father died,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.48,0:16:02.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his uncle trafficked him to work with him in the mines.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.57,0:16:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When his uncle died, Manuru inherited his uncle's debt,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.16,0:16:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which further forced him into being enslaved in the mines.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.10,0:16:14.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I met him, he had been working in the mines
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.94,0:16:19.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for 14 years, and the leg injury that you see here
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.73,0:16:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is actually from a mining accident,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:21.74,0:16:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one so severe doctors say his leg should be amputated.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.88,0:16:30.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On top of that, Manuru has tuberculosis,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.83,0:16:33.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet he's still forced to work day in and day out
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.87,0:16:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that mine shaft.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.12,0:16:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even still, he has a dream that he will become free
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.28,0:16:44.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and become educated with the help of local activists
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.39,0:16:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like Free the Slaves,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.82,0:16:49.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's this sort of determination,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.17,0:16:53.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the face of unimaginable odds,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.05,0:17:00.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that fills me with complete awe.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.41,0:17:03.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to shine a light on slavery.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.71,0:17:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was working in the field,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.96,0:17:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I brought lots of candles with me,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.64,0:17:11.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with the help of my interpreter,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.37,0:17:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I imparted to the people I was photographing
Dialogue: 0,0:17:13.68,0:17:16.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I wanted to illuminate their stories
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.79,0:17:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their plight,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.86,0:17:22.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so when it was safe for them, and safe for me,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:22.37,0:17:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I made these images.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.71,0:17:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They knew their image would be seen
Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.94,0:17:29.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by you out in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.77,0:17:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted them to know that we will be bearing witness
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.51,0:17:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to them, and that we will do whatever we can
Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.44,0:17:42.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help make a difference in their lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.13,0:17:45.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I truly believe, if we can see one another
Dialogue: 0,0:17:45.61,0:17:50.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as fellow human beings, then it becomes very difficult
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.10,0:17:55.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tolerate atrocities like slavery.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.30,0:17:58.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These images are not of issues. They are of people,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.98,0:18:02.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,real people, like you and me, all deserving
Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.25,0:18:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the same rights, dignity and respect
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.73,0:18:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.96,0:18:11.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is not a day that goes by that I don't think
Dialogue: 0,0:18:11.19,0:18:16.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of these many beautiful, mistreated people
Dialogue: 0,0:18:16.47,0:18:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've had the tremendous honor of meeting.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.04,0:18:24.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope that these images awaken a force
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.57,0:18:27.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in those who view them, people like you,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.62,0:18:31.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I hope that force will ignite a fire,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.89,0:18:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that fire will shine a light on slavery,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:36.82,0:18:40.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for without that light, the beast of bondage
Dialogue: 0,0:18:40.82,0:18:44.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can continue to live in the shadows.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.01,0:18:46.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:46.99,0:19:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)