The Average Cost Of Humans/Modern 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.

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.

Being fully aware of the benefits of the slaves, the British elevated their importation and by the turn of the eighteenth century African slaves numbered in the tens of thousands in the British colonies (1). As the demands in tobacco increased, labor increased. Like the simple law of supply and demand. Ending of Royal African Company’s monopoly in 1698 encouraged more traders to enter the slave business -- thus making African slaves more accessible (4). As a result of their increased expense, their masters were stringent and determined to get as much out of them as possible thereby working them mercilessly (Faragher 2009, p. 83). Initially, the cost of slaves may have been more expensive but in the end the masters were able to keep them enslaved.

In 1808 Congress outlawed American involvement with the African slave trade, which increase the value of the slave already in the country. The dramatic rise in the monetary value of enslaved workers brought better treatment for many. One planter remarked “The time has been that the farmer would killed up and wear out one Negro to buy another, but it is not so now.” One ex-slave recalled that he was treated just as well as you would a good mule. So even though American did not end slavery, many farmers treated their slave’s way better than they ever had before.

20 to 30 million slaves today? Human trafficking is separated into two categories; sex trafficking

Modern Slavery involves all sort of ancient slavery acts including people being kidnapped from their families and homes, losing their identities and freedom, and being forced to work against their will with no pay under the threat of continuous beatings and sufferings which eventually led to the early death. The most common form of Slavery in the 21st century is the human trafficking, in which human beings are exploited for the purpose of forced labor, sex, forced children begging circle and the removal of their organs. Although being the first-tier country in the United States’ Trafficking in Person Report of 2017, an annual report issued by the US State Department to monitor and combat trafficking

Although human trafficking is the fastest growing process by which a person is enslaved, it is also the fastest growing international crime and one of the largest growing incomes for organised crime. It is estimated that at least 12.3 million people are victims of forced labour worldwide. Of these 2.4 million are as a result of human trafficking. Consequently it 1.2 million children are trafficked every year.(STOP THE TRAFFIK 2014) Six hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand men, women and children are trafficked across international borders each year. Approximately eighty percent are women and children and up to half of them are minors. Predominantly the vast majority of trafficked people come from the poorest countries and the poorest strata of the national people. Human trafficking is the second largest source of illegal income, being surpassed by drugs trafficking. Some trafficking groups have been reported to be switching their cargo from drugs to human beings, in a search of high profits at a lower risk. (STOP THE TRAFFIK 2014)

Human trafficking generates about $150 billion a year and more than 30 million people are being enslaved all over the world, including right here in the US. More people are enslaved now than ever before.

Attention grabber: According to “Free the Slaves” Globally, the average cost of a slave is $90.

A human slave today would cost about $90. There are more slaves in the world today than ever before. There is an estimated 27-30 million slaves in the world. An estimated 21 million of those slaves are the victims of sex trafficking. People do not realize it but human sex trafficking is the largest form of modern day slavery. Not all human trafficking is sex trafficking. The annual market value of human sex trafficking is $32 billion dollars. The annual market value other types of human trafficking accumulates to around $8 million dollars. Human sex trafficking is something we hear about a lot but we continue to ignore the problem facing today’s society. A majority of the trafficking victims are women and girls but men and boys can also be victims. In 2014, 223 cases of trafficking were reported in the United States alone. Annually, around 72% of reported trafficking was related to sex. Some people say that it is possible to end all slavery in 25 years. Everyone has a role to play- the government, big and small businesses of all kinds, consumers and

Slavery is when persons are owned and controlled by other persons, and they have little to no freedom. In Eastern Europe slavery ended in 1528, but human trafficking has been going on for thousands of years. A few decrees did not stop the horrible crime called human trafficking. By definition human trafficking is modern day slavery; people that are victims are imprisoned and worked until they are physically unable to any longer. Many people turn a blind eye to human trafficking. Despite the minimal efforts of various governments Eastern European human trafficking is on the rise, leading to an increase in the economic exploration of the victims of human trafficking.

The International Labor Organization estimates that there are 20.9 million victims of human trafficking globally. 68% of them are trapped in forced labor, 26% of them are children, and 55% are women and girls. Human trafficking, better known as trafficking in persons or modern-day slavery, is a crime that involves the exploitation of a person for the purpose of forced sex or labor. Anyone can be a victim regardless of race, color, national origin, disability, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, education level, or citizenship status. Traffickers commonly prey on individuals who are poor, vulnerable, living in an unsafe environment, or are in search of a better life. These victims are misled by false

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.

According to the comprehensive news report, as of 2013, there are about 28.9 million people that are living as slaves. Despondently many believe slavery; child labour is a

Modern slavery and human trafficking in France Introduction I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery - Thomas Jefferson 1787 France is a destination country for women and girls traffick for the purposes of sexual explotation. Men, women and children continued to be trafficked for the purposes of forced labor, including domestic servitude. Government officials, judicialy members, police officers and humanitarian aid workers have expressed concern, about victims of human trafficking, “the world ́s fastest growing criminal industry”. France wants to end this problem because is one of the biggest problem the nation has. Protection of Modern Slavery The national government and city of Paris continued to partner with NGOs in order to provide