Speech On Slavery

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

World wide slavery is a thirty-two billion dollar industry. There are more than twenty-seven million slaves. But sex trafficking in the U.S. alone is a $9.8 million industry. Nearly 100,000 of those slaves are youth that are trafficked in the U.S. annually.(Donley-Hayes, 1.) In order to solve this problem people need to be aware of the extent of the problem, along with causes and effects before a solution can come about.

Slavery back in the 1800s was for profit, despite there not being a lot of profit. Slavery now, despite being illegal and short-term, has very high profit. The most profiting type of slavery back in the 1800s was forced labor, as that was the most common types of slavery. It was mostly for plantations, and cotton farming. Nowadays, slavery is used for sex trafficking forced labor, child trafficking, and even forced marriage. It is very high profit, as work is short- term but well paying despite being very

Slaves were considered property, not as human beings, and were bought and sold as commodities. They were often listed in sales along with corn and land (document 5) and were leased and sold openly from slave dealer’s places of business where human beings were kept in a “slave pen” prior to sale. Inhumane punishment, such as severe and cruel whippings were inflicted on slaves for any minor infraction, often in public view. (document 2) The harshness of these beatings

Every person depending on their ranking or gender were given different punishments. The crimes that are visible in the laws are different compared to the crimes that would take place today . For example it says that if a builder fails to construct a house properly and the house fallss an kills its owner then the builder should be put to death. Again in law 200 we can see that if a man knocks out another mans ( equal ) teeth then the damage should be returned. Here we can see that damaging someone equal to you will give you the same consequences. The most common punishment among women at that time was either painful death or being cast into water. From what i can see there are’nt many laws that suggests that slaves would get a different kind of punishment if they commit a

Some punishments that the slaves endured were whipping, hanging, beating, burning, branding, shackling and imprisonment (Boundless). Many of the plantations that housed slaves used these forms of brutality. Slaves could earn a one-way ticket to a punishment by trying to run away, a form of disobedience or sometimes just because their master felt like it. One of the most violent forms of these brutal acts was the whipping. When a slave is whipped, they are literally stripped of their clothes and dignity and flogged with a rope, piece of leather or even cow skin with prongs. Depending on the slave master, the number of lashes changes. However, some masters just decide to whip until they grow tired or fatigued.

Throughout World History, many atrocious and abominable things have happened to human beings throughout time. Babies have been slaughtered in wars, people have been killed by severe natural disasters, and people have even been eaten by cannibals. But nothing seems to come close in comparison to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and what those people had to toil through. They were mercilessly beaten, branded, and even considered less than human by their fellow humans. The slaves of this horrific time in American History, from the 1400s to the 1860s, went through possibly the worst tribulation in human history. Although slavery was more of an economic institution, was the brutal treatment of slaves in the Americas necessary to keep them in line?

The common relations of slavery are between slavery and the Civil War. Most would argue that slavery ended in 1865. With this standpoint, we often brush off or neglect to further investigate slavery in its most modern forms. Over the course of history, there are few times we can truly say a social problem was completely solved. Starvation still exists, as does poverty, racism, war, segregation, injustice within government systems, and yes, even slavery. Human trafficking is modern day slavery, and it exists everywhere with two different categories: sex exploitation and labor exploitation. Human trafficking is not new, but what is new is the volume of trafficking taking place, and how little we know about it. How can a problem, so monstrous and so widespread continue with most society being unaware of its existence? The 1800’s, and even years’ prior, were a period of unfathomable abuse towards people considered less than. The 21st century is also a period of unfathomable abuse towards people considered commodities. Now the common place relation between slavery and the civil war must be over, because the monster of modern day slavery has awoken.

“Slavery occurs when one person controls another person, using violence or the threat of violence to maintain that control, exploits them economically, pays them nothing and they cannot walk away.” In 1865, slavery was abolished here in the United States. It states in the thirteenth amendment that, “neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Even though it states that slavery is illegal in the thirteenth amendment, human trafficking is equivalent to modern slavery and it still exist today in the United States. Human trafficking happens when someone owes money, is kidnapped,

In 1863, the United States enacted laws that formally abolished slavery. However, modern day manifestation of slavery still exists; it is called “human trafficking.” Human trafficking, according to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 is “trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery (United States, 2000). Although there are multiple categories of human trafficking, this essay will focus solely on human sex trafficking.

Many people may not directly be involved in slavery but their cooperation makes them an accomplice of a crime. The first link in the chain are the slaves themselves. They are victims of the system and therefore cannot be guilty of any accusation. The second link are the criminals who are immediately guilty for the crime of slavery. They are accompanied by the government officials who happily take profits from slave goods.

The problem of slavery is all around the world, including the United States. Every place country, state, city, village and more which are all, sadly, prone to being victimized to human trafficking. The act of being taken from your own house/land and being forced to work is horrific. Children as young as 15 are sexually exploited on videos and sold out publicly on the internet. Adults are forced into abysmal working conditions, and they work until they can’t anymore. In humid areas, on blazing hot days. They work and if they stop working, they nevertheless are killed by the trafficker and he goes to purchase a new

“Slavery is a conservative ideal. So I am not surprised you bring it up. Slavery is illegal in this country. It has been ever since your kind in the past got their asses

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.

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