Slavery is still a large problem to this day. According to an article on End Slavery Now, there's still an estimate that over a quarter of the world’s slaves are children (“Child Labor”). People can be put into slavery for their debt. Most of the time it’s children that go into slavery everywhere in the world. They are put in factories, farms, and house labor to work out any debt their family may owe. Child slavery takes people away from their loved ones, education, and in some cases socialization. Child slavery also forces these children to commit sexaul actions, come into a system of employment with conditions that are harmful and may contain abuse. Child slavery is dehumanizing because the targets are both physically and emotionally abused. In Americans history childhood slavery has been physically and emotionally abusive. Linda addresses herself and her brother, who was 10 and she was 12 and enslaved by Dr. Flint. “ My home now seemed more dreary than ever. The laugh of the little-children sounded harsh and cruel. It was selfish to feel so about the joy of others. My brother moved about with a very grave face… I argued that we were growing older and stronger, and that perhaps we might, before long, be allowed to hire our own time,and then we could earn money to buy our freedom (Incidents in the LIfe of a Slave Girl). …show more content…
In one situation Taylor was describing a time when Martha Kuhlman, age 14, was being harmed throughout her time of being in sex trafficking and forced to be sold out as an object. Martha explains what mainly she faced as a child in sex trafficking “ ‘ There was a lot of, a lot of beatings, alot of rapes. I've been cut up three times. One time I almost died in someone's vehicle. I got choked,’ Kuhlman said” (Human Sex Trafficking on the Rise, and Here in Milwaukee). In doing this Taylor shows how Martha has been physically and