“The goondas are men who work for Mumtaz,” She says. “If you try to escape, they will hunt you. If they catch you, they will beat you. If you get a disease, they will throw you out in the street. If you try to get back in, they will beat you.” (McCormick 156) When we hear “slavery,” we imagine history; when whites believed they had more power over African Americans. According to Webster Dictionary, slavery reveals as submissive to a dominating influence, there’s many different ways to define such a negative word; such as, subjection, captivity, enchainment, imprisonment, incarceration, and so on. No matter what you call it, it still has a negative connotation.
It’s hard to picture modern slavery, maybe because it isn’t happening to people
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He then sells her into the sex trade for money to feed himself and his wife. He isn’t concerned for what Lakshmi has to say about this and tricks her into believing she’s going to be a housemaid. She was given this impression the minute she arrived to the happiness house and was taken to a room to then have intercourse with a man who’s 40 years older than her.
In a recent Facebook post a women is describing her experience in a Richmond, KY Walmart where a women with an infant was being followed by two men who did not take their eye of the child. When the mother had turned her back to get something one of the men had gotten closer to the infant and was getting ready to kidnap her when they noticed someone was watching them and quickly backed away. Sex trafficking happens everyone and it doesn’t matter the age.
It’s suggested that girls never go out in public alone, not to go to the bathroom alone, not to go anywhere alone for this very reason. Men claim that because a girl dresses a certain way or acts a certain way that she’s asking to be pimped out or taken into the sex trade because that’s all she is. A piece of meat for a man to destroy her innocence for a night and throw her away for the next male to force her to sleep with