Slavery and Human Trafficking

For over 2,000 years, slavery has been conducted in various parts of the world. From year 1500 to year 1900, Europeans stole individuals from West Africa, West Central Africa, and Southeast Africa and shipped them to the different parts of the Atlantic. This process dehumanized them of their identity. Europeans stole husbands, wives, merchants, blacksmiths, farmers, and even children. They removed them from their homelands and gave them new names: slaves. European slaveholders never thought to take ownership of their actions by killing humans with brutality and degradation. Slave trade was considered popular in England and soon after more countries began the process of taking slaves to newly claimed territories. These countries include

Images of foreign lands usually conjure up when the thoughts of human sex trafficking come to one 's mind. The United States of America is not immune to this type of horrific behavior. America is the land of the free and yet something as awful as human sex trafficking occurs in our very own backyard each and everyday. According to the Department of Homeland Security the definition of human trafficking is “modern day slavery that involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act” (“What Is Human Trafficking?”). In this research paper the reader will experience the savagery that comes with human sex trafficking and how it has expanded in the United States over recent years. Within this research

Slavery has been a part of the United States since the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of crops (Slavery in America, 2014, p. 1). Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and African-American slaves helped build the fiscal grounds of the new nation (Slavery in America, 2014, p. 1). By the mid-1800s, the westward expansion, along with the abolition movement in the North, provoked a great debate over slavery that would tear the nation apart in the gory American Civil War from 1861-1865 (Slavery, 2014, p. 1). Many masters took sexual liberties with slave women, and rewarded obedient slave behavior with favors, while rebellious slaves were brutally punished (Slavery in America, 2014, p. 1). This slavery, although abolished with the ending of the Civil War, continues today. This modern form of slavery, known as human trafficking, poses as a threat to the United States today. Modern slavery can involve using children in the military, whether as combatants, porters, cooks or for other jobs, however, it is often undertaken for purposes of sexual or labor exploitation (New Estimate, 2013, p. 8; Pearson, 2014, p. 363). Targets of this act aren’t based on race, age, or ethnicity but on who are more likely to fall for the trafficker’s false presentation of life with them. The most common form of this human trafficking is for sex slavery, or human sex

According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, human trafficking is accounting for 2.4 million victims every single year. This is comparable to the African slave trade which was encompassing 5 to 6 million people annually. These figures are showing how both slavery and human trafficking were highly profitable. This is what helps to encourage recruitment. ("2.4 Million Human

Slavery has been documented and has been part of the world for a very extensive time. Slaves as well-defined by numerous of individual’s state that slaves were a group of individuals who were legally bought and soon after, became the property of an owner and were forced to obey. No one knows when slavery actually came about, but we do know that it existed.

Slavery has no single definition behind it because it is defined in so many different ways.

In 1865 the United States passed the thirteenth amendment to abolish slavery. Over a century, and yet somewhere in the dark corners of our country there is a dark truth. Slavery did not end with abolition in the 19th century but in fact there is still slavery today. There is trade of modern day slavery that remains widespread through our country. Human trafficking is an enormous issue that is often overlooked this is a skeleton the United States has in the closet. In fact very little light is shown on this topic, but the awful reality is there and it seems to be growing rapidly by each day that goes by. Every day women, children, and even men are kidnapped, taken from their families, and forced into free labor and sexual exploitation. According

Human trafficking is one of the most popular ways to get a lot of cash. Money is one of the most important things in a person's everyday life, people do a lot of things to get that money. Most women prostitute to make some money, others do life threatening jobs, but many young girls that want money do stupid things like getting involved with trafficking. Many people would say “oh, that is not in our country nor our neighborhood, it can’t be.” But it is. Everyone should have that fear that they could be in danger. Most of the captors or the human trafficker find their prey or the ones getting trafficked in places with low education and have destruction ( hurricane destruction, tornado destruction,floods, etc. )areas where people have barely any money to provide for themselves.

When I see the news and hear about sexual abuse, or raping, I ask myself, what is the necessary? What is happening to this world? But now to read how some of those women were treated and sexually abused by their masters, I find it frustrating for them and disturbing for me to analyze how they could kept living that way. Also the wife, powerless to punish their husband, led them to punish and treat bad these women slaves. I understand that this wives were frustrated and didn’t find a way out, but still it was a bad thing to do. I can’t even think about what those women slaves where going through. Sexual abuse from their masters and “arbitrary beatings, increased workloads, and various forms of psychological torment”. (American History, 305)

The history of slavery is long, documented, captured in photos and personal narratives of slaves and slave owners. There are many accounts of how slavery started, the horrific stories of transporting slaves and what they were used for throughout history. To start at the beginning you have to start with how slaves were placed in different countries and continents where they were not born. Most know about the Atlantic slave trade that effected North America, South America and the Caribbean. Slavery existed way before the foundations of America were set in stone. There was slavery in the bible days between the Hebrews and Israelites. Some do not know besides the Atlantic slave trade there was also the Eastern Slave trade. There was also

domestic and sex slavery. Laws, some new, and many that have been around for hundreds of

Nobody knows the true numbers, but estimates that 2.5 million children, men, and womens are trafficked within their home countries. Modern slavery is an international crime involving a lot of countries.The traffickers and the organized crime groups use whatever that I son their disposal to deceive and force the persons to a life with abuse, servitude and inhumane treatment. The potential victims refered to the National Referral Mechanisms in 2014 were reported from 112 countries of origin .

Human trafficking and modern slavery Human trafficking is the trade of humans, for several purposes, such as: sexual slavery, forced labor or commercial exploitation. It is an infraction against the person because is a violation of the human right. Human trafficking represented an estimated $31.6 billion of international trade per annum in 2010. This entire problem started way long in the 1400s, by trading African people to Europe using them as slaves. Even human trafficking is a unisex problem; women are the most affected by this issue. Some governments have expressed concern, about the victims of this problem, especially the government of France. The government of France wants to end human trafficking because it is a very important problem

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

More specifically then human trafficking, there is child trafficking. Child trafficking is today’s version of slavery that involves transferring a child for the purpose of abuse or illegal activities. According to the U.S. Department of State, “Child/Human Trafficking is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world and is the world’s second largest criminal enterprise, after drugs. Child trafficking happens in every single country, including the United States. When people think of trafficking of people, most think of women, but children are also being sold as slaves all across the world. Children who are most likely to become victims are those who come from low income homes, have limited access to education and are