Human Rights: No Slavery

There are more slaves in this world today than at any point in human history, with an estimate of 21 million in bondage across the globe. Every 30 seconds a person becomes a victim of contemporary slavery, which is a multi-billion dollar industry with estimates of up to $35 billion generated annually. This vile crime robs millions of people of their basic freedom and dignity. Victims of modern-day slavery include U.S. citizens and foreign nationals, adults, and children, who are trapped in forced labor, with little or no hope.

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.

When Americans today consider the term “slavery,” they recall a dark time in their nation's past, when an entire race of people were subjugated solely for the color of their skin, a travesty of civil rights that progressive thinking has striven to heal, insofar as paving the way to the election of an African-American president. Slavery is an antiquated practice from a draconian past, and it has no relevance in this modern, enlightened age. What Americans fail to comprehend is that slavery is not only alive and well, but thriving, and fueling the global economy at the expense of human lives. The International Labour Organization (ILO), a United Nations agency dedicated to protecting the human rights of laborers world-wide, estimates that

Slavery was an event that happened in America, and it boomed in the 1800’s. It was and still is a terrible thing. That’s right, it still is. Slavery still happens in other countries, like Sudan and Niger. It is often noticed and seen most in Africa, but it also still happens in India, the Middle East, and in other places as well. It is technically illegal in every country of the world, but some of the ones listed and others do a bad job of enforcing those laws. I will explain this and other slavery issues in this essay, and let’s get started.

Slavery still exists. People living in extreme poverty, as 1.2 billion people worldwide are today, are extremely vulnerable to being exploited and enslaved, and they often don’t even know that the way they’re being treated is not okay (Giugale). Young kids may

Slavery originated as early as the 1600’s when Britain shipped 3.1 million Africans to British owned colonies in the Caribbean. The new idea of slavery brought controversial ideals and created a historical movement that effected even the peoples of today. Slavery is a form of manipulation that was excused as a conscious way to provide economic growth in Caribbean and European colonies. It then revolutionized itself into a much bigger issue; many didn’t anticipate it could also revolutionize the world. The Haitian Revolution of 1759 evoked a social change that transformed the Caribbean countries, Cuba and Haiti, while slowly expanding the idea of the abolition of slavery. Through traumatic social events, slavery was justified as a way to sustain economics while it simultaneously harmed the lives of the enslaved.

Slavery is one of many unfortunate commonalities among cultures, along with war, governmental corruption, and poverty. Nearly every country on the planet, at some point in their history, has condoned the owning of humans by other humans. It may be tempting to view the establishment of the United States as an idyllic endeavor in which enlightened people joined together to create a new republic; however, choosing this view is ignoring the truth. Slave labor built this country from its infancy, and hundreds of thousands of African men, women, and children were exploited for the sake of cheap labor.

Today, 27 million slaves exist in the world. Many think slavery ended in 1865, but slavery has been going on forever. Not just 27 million people live in slavery; it is estimated more than 4.5 million are trapped in forced sexual exploitation globally (“Sex Trafficking in the U.S….”). In 1850, the height of slavery in the Americas for the production of tobacco and cotton, the United States Census showed 3 million slaves included in the population (DeBow 82). Most know about the 3 million slaves that once existed in the United States, but the current 27 million remain unknown to most. Those 27 million are hidden in the shadows of brothels, factories, rock quarries, and massage parlors; if the United States does not do something about it now,

The PBS documentary “Slavery by Any Other Name” was taken place from 1865 to 1945 in the North and South. That was eight decades of slavery. The narrator of this story had a neutral tone throughout the film. It covered slavery and the new forms of force labor that occurred after the 13th Amendment was passed.

Almost everyone around the world agrees that all forms of slavery are inhumane and degrading. However, it’s important to know why and demonstrate how it is wrong since there are so many arguments trying to rationalize and

The issue of slavery has been debated for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. It is of undisputed awareness that the act of enslaving another man or women is to strip them of their civil and natural liberties. It is also of uncontested certainty that no man or women would will- ingly chose to be a slave. And although slavery and it’s accompanied hardships are often seen as no less than an ultimate evil, it is also an indisputable fact that humanity has enslaved its brethren since the dawn of mankind1. As rational beings, we must put aside our presumptions, precon- ceived notions, and emotionally biased opinions of slavery and ask ourselves; why? One would think that if enslavement was such an unspeakable evil, it would have no place in our civil soci- ety. Yet, slavery time and time again has appeared as a fundamental part of many of the worlds most powerfull civilizations and societies throughout history. This is because slavery is a power- full tool and a necessary evil. The Greeks, Romans, Mongols, Ottomans, Egyptians, Ghana’s, Mali’s, Songhai’s, and Kanem-Bornu’s (the former four being powerfull African empires) all

Slavery began in America in 1619 when African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia, to help in crop production. For two and a half more centuries, these people were exploited and mistreated for the success of the white man. In 1861, the long-fought conflict caused the Civil War, which ended in 1865 with the publication of the 13th Amendment. This was supposed to be the end of slavery in America, but if this were so, this essay wouldn’t exist. Instead of the outright exploitation of African-Americans, slavery has evolved into a $150 billion industry that takes people from their homes and forces them into unpaid or underpaid service anywhere around the world. Human trafficking comes in many forms and affects a variety of people, but no matter the situation, it’s still a crime that ruins lives.

Over the past decades, slavery in America has significantly increased and curbed public freedom because American authorities and media have not dealt with the urgency of the issue. This has jeopardized human freedom. This increase is largely due to the import of foreign workers in the form of immigration and also home-bred slaves transported centuries ago from Africa. The increase is astonishing as the writer in The Slave Next Door asserts: “More than twice as many people are in bondage in the world today than were taken from Africa during the entire 350 years of the Atlantic slave trade. And we know that slavery is alive and more than well in the United States” (Kevin and Ron, 3). With twenty seven million people in bondage, slavery is

Slavery back in the 1800"s was used for necessary development, while slavery today is coming to an end. Back in the 1800's slaves were used as a means of labor. Slaves were also a means of trade. Slavery provided labor power stimulation development in settling of the New World. Because of this, slaves became the main target of productivity. Also, many low class farmers, merchants and businessmen turned to slave trade as a means of profit. In turn, they utilized children for "small jobs", which eventually constituted the Child Labor Laws. Because of this, many low class workers became wealthy businessmen. The question today is, "Is slavery really 'Over and Out'?"

When we hear the word slavery our mind paints a picture of colonial America down in the South with big plantation houses harvesting wheat, with workers being unpaid and unfairly treated. At this time in our county we were struggling with the idea of equality for all. America has come a long way from those days but not with out a fight. Abraham Lincoln, the Civil Rights moment and free and public education has been addressed. Today, we face a new conflicts and a different type of slavery. Slavery and sex trafficking is occurring not just abroad but at home as well. In 2004, “800,000 to 9000,000 men women and children are trafficked across international borders every year, including 18,000 to 20,000 in the US. Worldwide slavery is in the