How Does Slave Trade Still Exist Today

Slave Trade Slave trade is a major issue from that past that has one of the biggest effects on the word still to this day. Many tragic events that occurred in the past were awful for the deaths that they caused, but the ever lasting effects on society that slave trade developed still exist today. Slave trade devalued people as humans to where they were thought of as property. Slave trade could have been avoided, and if it was it would change the way people look at minorities in today’s society. One of the underlying causes of slave trade was the amount of labor farmers needed and the cost of labor to pay people to collect their crops. With new people moving into the western hemisphere they need more slaves to help collect on their land,

Races have not been equal since white’s decided it was okay to own people of other races, and consider them as property, or eventually 3/5th of a person. This could also be the reason poverty for African-Americans is more than double then whites. The text gives other things that could have been avoided, “During early modern times, African peoples fought many wars for reasons that had little or nothing to do with the slave trade, but it encouraged them to participate also in conflicts that might never have occurred in the absence of the trade” (Bentley and Ziegler). These occurrences came from slaves being exchanged for firearms from England. When there was a need for slaves wars would be started to capture people to be sold. The slave trade should be known as a bigger tragedy. It is an event that seems to be easily avoidable with lowered labor cost, or laws against treating people as property and giving them their rights just like any normal human. It is similar to the Holocaust where 11 million died. 12.5 million people were apart of slavery and the lasting effect it has on society today is

It was not until 1865 that slavery was abolished and African-Americans gained some of the civil rights they deserved. Blacks and whites were still segregated for many years after the abolishment of slavery. Women were not equal to men and in 1920 the 19th amendment was passed granting women the right to vote. It wasn’t until much later better steps were achieved, women and African-Americans wanted more rights to be considered equal. Women, “In addition to demanding equality in the workplace, women demanded full control over their bodies and their reproductive system” (Bentley and Ziegler). Birth control was legalized in the 1960s and abortion 1970s and women were then given full control over their bodies. The U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 prevented discrimination of both sex and race. Everyone is still not fully equal, but it is the best it has ever