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Humorous Wedding Speech: Modern Day Slavery

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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, today, there is one very crucial question we would like to ask, and that question would be, what exactly does modern day slavery look like? It’s much more subtle than the usual whip touting slave owner that owns people openly, but rather, it’s something as simple as everyday commerce. Slaves of the modern day aren’t brutalized or punished in public much like they used to be, due to the fact that society has changed, and such actions simply wouldn’t be accepted anymore. No, in the modern day, slaves work in silent torture doing jobs such as tailoring, cooking, or being a maid. These slaves suffer due to their lack of economic options and their lack of knowledge, and they’re also usually immigrants fleeing from …show more content…

Eventually, Cameron hired the victim, Lin Stark. Lin’s family was stuck back in their home country, and Lin’s sister was in desperate need of medical attention. Because of Lin’s desperation to help his family, and his desperation to have a sponsored visa to stay in the U.S., he took this job, which could only give him a limited amount of pay in the first place. Once he took the job, Cameron took Lin’s visa and his immigration papers, which he never gave back to Lin. Lin was eventually supplied with a small, dirty studio apartment on the second floor of the restaurant to live in, which could only be accessed if you had a key to get into the restaurant. Lin was not given a key to the restaurant, so he couldn’t have gone anywhere, or he would have been locked out of his own apartment. But, I digress for the moment. At first, the work was fine, but eventually, the workload piled on him, and Cameron was becoming more and more impatient with Lin, which ended up in verbal abuse from Cameron. Verbal Abuse such as threats of deportation. These threats were witnessed by not one, but two people. Julian Blake, who reported Cameron’s actions, and Officer Hayden West, the officer that arrested Cameron Awbrey. At this point, Lin was not only working 90 hour work weeks, but he was being paid much less than the

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