The survivors tell of being enslaved working in marijuana fields or forced into prostitution.
Many of those less fortunate end up being enslaved by work masters who ferry refugees around southern Turkey as labourers and farmhands.
We talked to a family of which all three generations were enslaved to work at a brick kiln in the Punjab.
To know that we African-Americans came here enslaved to work until we died but didn't die, and instead grew up to become doctors and teachers, architects and presidents — how can these children not carry this history with them for those many moments when someone will attempt to make light of it, or want them to forget the depth and amazingness of their journey?
It had 430 enslaved people working on it.
Columbus was so impressed with the hard work of these gentle islanders, that he immediately seized their land for Spain and enslaved them to work in his brutal gold mines.
In addition, Jones-Rogers says, records show that during the Civil War, Confederate officers in Southern states hired enslaved people to work on forts and the military paid the slaves' owners, including female slave owners.
They voted plantation owners £20 million in compensation, giving full emancipation to children younger than six, and instituting a system of apprenticeship requiring other enslaved peoples to work for their former masters for four to six years in the British West Indies, South Africa, Mauritius, British Honduras and Canada.
He's working, enslaved to the student loan debt, all for a career he's not able to pursue".
"Why there are all these people who have pretty much given their lives to her, been totally charmed and enslaved by her, worked with her round the clock, are all now having feuds with her.
