13th Amendment Abolished Slavery

“Human trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, and the transport of people within countries for sexual exploitation, forced labor, and/or organ donating.” (Gale) “Slavery is the condition in which one or more persons is owned as property by another and is under the owner’s control.” (American Heritage Dictionary) Trafficked people who are often regarded as disposable, are often used for these various reasons. Although, many believe slavery ended with the Thirteenth Amendment, slavery still exists in 2017. In order to understand that human trafficking is a form of slavery, one needs to examine what it is, the effects, and the solutions.

In December of 1865, Congress passed the 13th amendment abolishing slavery in the United States. By July of 1868, the 14th amendment was passed to grant citizenship to anyone, regardless of race, born in the United States and prohibiting states from depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or rejecting to any person, within their jurisdiction, the equal protection of the laws (Jim Crow Stories). Immediately following the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and Republicans were trying to give equal rights to African Americans and set rules that would allow the Southern states back into the Union. At the same time, the Radical Republicans were working to minimize African Americans’ rights; this era is known as

The 13th amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. It got passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864. Also, it was passed by the House on January 31, 1865. In addition, it was ratified on December 6, 1865. William H. Seward proclaimed its adoption on December 18, 1865. It started with Lincoln, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. However, it didn’t protect slaves in all states. That's why Amendment 13 was made; to protect slaves in all states. However, there is 1 acception. Slavery can be used as a punishment for crime.

The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery in the united states . Some people say that the amendment didn’t exactly abolish slavery . The amendment apparently just freed the slaves and that’s it . First off the amendment was passed jan 31 , 1865 and ratified by december 6 , 1865. There was a problem that some people didn’t see this amendment as permanent , that people saw it as temporary .

The thirteenth amendment of the constitution is a very important one throughout the history of the United States. This amendment was added by president Abraham Lincoln abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States. Although this law was passed, not many slaves were freed and their servitude continued for many more years due to such things as the Black Codes which unfortunately forced African Americans to go on living like they were used to. Thanks to this amendment, a person does not have to do forced labor in order to pay off a

In 1865, the 13th amendment outlawed slavery in America, setting free thousands of African Americas confined by the vigorous hands of enslavement; however, many people are unaware that there are more slaves in the world today than ever before in history. In fact, slavery still exists in not only America but in 136 other countries, as well. Over 15 thousand women and children in the United States, alone, are currently being held as slaves to physical exploitation. Albeit, many people, including myself, are determined to end the repugnant pain and suffering many women and children are being forced into just miles from our homes and work places.

Civil Right Amendments. The 13th Amendment is the abolish of slavery. The thirteenth Amendment was the abolish of slavery.

Hook: There is modern day slavery in the United States, which is known as Human Trafficking. The most common form of human trafficking is prostitution. Mostly young girls and women. Then there are the agricultural workers, domestic workers, childcare providers, construction workers, day laborers and restaurant workers that have been transported to our country or are already living in the United States. Many of these people that have passports or any other type of identity have them taken away from them so they cannot prove their identity to authorities.

Though many people believed that slavery and bondage was completely abolished by the 13th Amendment, somehow there was a way around the statement of this constitutional Amendment. What was stated that gave rise to the extension of slavery in America’s Southern states. The 13th Amendment ruled that slavery, could still be legitimate if used as a punishment for crime. This continuation of slavery was said to be a form of punishment for crimes that were committed. The only thing the states in the south had to do was to come up with something that would cause the former slaves to be arrested, and from that point they could officially place them right back into slavery. In order to do this, the politicians of the south came up with a strings of laws they named the “black codes” and this would allow them to place black people under arrest for just about anything they could think of.

Back in the 1600’s slavery was brought to the United States to help aid in the production of crops. We have come a long ways since then through our government system to help provide a more riotous and free system, the land of the free. Slavery ended and racism has declined but today there still exists a different type of slavery and this is known as human trafficking. Many call sex or human trafficking the modern day type of slavery because people are forced to work for another person mostly by selling their body. According to the United Nations and their protocol signed by more then 80 countries sex/ human trafficking is the “recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use

Polaris Project fights to do away with slavery of the modern age. They focus on responding to victims efficiently and without delay. They provide communities and stakeholders the resources to address and prevent human trafficking. Doing so, disrupts the criminal enterprises network of human trafficking business. Polaris offers national hotlines, global hotlines, client services, texting hotlines, government relations, advisory services, data analysis, and strategic interventions (Polaris, 2017). Overall, this organization is dedicated to eradicating human trafficking and all avenues in which it operates.

Human trafficking can take many forms, as well as many victims. One form of trafficking is slavery. Slavery is having a worker who is unpaid and who works by force using coercion, fraud or threat of bodily harm. “According to the United Nations, there are between 27 and 30 million modern-day slaves in the world (Jesionka, “Human Trafficking: The Myths and the Realities”).” “By 1860, the nation’s black population had jumped from 400,000 to 4.4 million, of which 3.9 million were slaves.(Henry Louis Gates).” That means there are nearly ten times more slaves today than there were in the late 1800’s.

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) was the first enacted policy to directly address the problem of Human Trafficking. However, previous policies were shown to directly impact victims of human trafficking. Victims who were brought across international borders were treated as illegal aliens under human smuggling laws (Bishop, 2003). Under prostitution laws, sex trafficking victims were treated as prostitutes, and often subjected to a revolving door of arrests while their traffickers went free (U.S Department of Health and Human Services [HHS], 2009). The 13th amendment, which outlaws slavery, was not expansive or inclusive enough to address complications of trafficking, such as victims who were not restrained by physical means (Bernadin, 2011). Research showed that these preexisting policies failed to acknowledge the complex intersection of crimes that are related to trafficking (United States Department of Justice, 2014).

Despite many efforts to stop human trafficking in general, there are still many underground dealings of trafficking that happen while we speak. People who were kidnapped, and have yet to be seen, have not been crossed off as possible victims of this horrendous act. Why has the government done nothing to stop human trafficking dealings if it outlawed slavery? Because they are frightened to reveal the horrors of the world to its people and they want to control us by promising us something will be done, but it is often never mentioned again. The American government enacted the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, better known as the TVPA, in 2000 and it expired in 2011. After six years, they finally decided to reintroduce this bill and hoped Congress

Slavery is a modern, pervasive problem. Human trafficking has been found in every state in America (humantrafficking.org). It seems that most Americans likely live within a comfortable drive of someone who is being exploited through human trafficking. There is a growing trend in human trafficking toward sexual exploitation (Bennetts, 2011). The Information Age has helped to create new opportunities for sex trafficking to flourish.