Did Slavery End

Jesse Affolder

History

September 14, 11

Did Slavery end?

Did Slavery End

If you ask some people if slavery has ended I bet most of the people you talk to will say yes, because they don’t realize the entire trafficking going on. No matter if it is trafficking for labor use, or for buying sex. In my opinion however, slavery has not even come close to stopping. If anything it has gotten worse because not only did it not stop, but it is going unseen by thousands of people.

Human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery where people profit from control and exploitation of others. There are two main forms of slave trafficking as I stated in the paragraph above, labor trafficking or sex trafficking. To me sex trafficking is absolutely outrageous and must be stopped. Not only is it happening in our country but also it is going on all across the world. Starting at the age of twelve years old to fourteen years old young kids are being sold to people for sexual acts. It is estimated that 100,000 children are being sold for sex acts. Not across the world but just in the United States of America alone. The sex traffickers mostly use vulnerable young kids as there main use. The way the sick people keep the kids keep the kids involved in the sex industry is by using violence, debt bondage, threats, false promises, and other forms of manipulation. Many places where these women are kept is where they do their work at, such as a massage parlor. A massage parlor is a place where women are offered legitimate jobs, but then were forced into prostitution. These poor women wouldn’t see the outside for days sometimes weeks at a time. They are forced to have sex six to ten times a day seven days a week.

Just like sex traffickers labor traffickers also use violence, threats and lies to force people to work against their wills. There are all kinds of different labor that these traffickers use their “slaves” as, domestic servants, farmworkers, and factory workers. Most...