Informative Essay On Human Trafficking

Kennedy Riley

Mr. Porter

English I

3 January 2023 Human Trafficking Did you know human trafficking dates back to Ancient Greece? Human trafficking is the recruitment, transport, or harboring of people for exploitation. “Trafficked people, who are often regarded as disposable by those trafficking them, are often used for various reasons such as to work as laborers or in the sex trade industry. They also may be subjected against their will to organ harvesting.” (“Human Trafficking”). Human trafficking comes in many different forms. Human trafficking is a global issue and has been for years. Some forms of human trafficking are sex trafficking and child trafficking.

Child trafficking is a form of human trafficking. Child trafficking occurs

Sex trafficking is when a person is forced into sex work for little to no money. Victims of sex trafficking can be any gender, but young women are the majority forced into this type of work. Many times, trafficked persons know their traffickers, who lure them into the industry through various deceptions. “Sex trafficking has existed in one form or another since ancient times. Both children and adults were sold and traded as sex slaves. The term, however, has been in use since the 1980s when feminists used it to protest the sexual exploitation of women and girls in the commercial sex industry, which includes prostitution and pornography.” (Harmon). As the quote states, sex trafficking ties back to slavery. Throughout the different forms of human trafficking, slavery had been around the

“Ancient Greece, for example, enslaved prisoners of war, although a slave trade developed as well. Enslaved people were used as laborers, including as domestic servants. In ancient Egypt, enslaved people built the pyramids. While slavery continued in various forms in ancient Roman and Asian civilizations, the slave trade saw rapid growth during the fifteenth century when Portuguese sailors began transporting and selling Africans to European countries. The slave trade expanded as Europeans began establishing colonies in the Americas. It is believed that about three hundred thousand people were sold to enslavers in the 1400s and 1500s. During the eighteenth century, American colonies were trading weapons and molasses for people. Although this type of slavery became illegal in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth century, a particular type of human exploitation continued—women and children were sold between countries, usually for sex-related purposes, beginning in the mid-1800s.” (“Human Trafficking”)

Human trafficking has been around for years and it is still a global issue to this day. Child trafficking is the trafficking of children. Sex trafficking is when people are trafficked to do sex work. The first records of human trafficking were from the first slave voyage from Africa to the