Slavery Today Essay

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Most people think that slavery is nonexistent in the modern world, but little do they know the amount of slavery has increased over the centuries, but just in a different form. Nowadays slavery happens when we aren't looking as a society, it happens in the places we don’t expect to see slavery. We are used to seeing slaves as African Americans working on hot plantations or factories. Today’s slaves are not to be seen or heard, they are cut off from the world, from their families, and friends. Therefore, slavery has changed over time, in it’s ideal and vision. The Transatlantic Slave Trade was the event of African Americans being deported from Africa into the colonies. When the colonies were getting more tired and not wanting to work …show more content…

Forced Labor is the is labor someone is forced to do to repay debt or can be used as a “punishment” for some. This is considered slavery because of the fact they are forced into work that has no pay, and they are usually trafficked into working. Forced labor can be found almost anywhere in the world, but is most common in the Middle East, Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe. Sex trafficking, according to UNODC is “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.” (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 2017). Human trafficking is considered slavery because it is mistreatment of the “employee”. Most victims start off in third world countries, such as: southwest Asia and central and South America. They are then moved into wealthier countries, like the Middle East, Western Europe and even the United States, to create an income for their

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