This unwanted reality is what makes modern slavery the awful crime it is today. Even if we want to do something about it, one can’t help but feel helpless because knowing where to start can seem challenging enough. That’s where we as the human race come in to help. We all need to do our part in speaking up, inform ourselves, increase involvement in the community, and become aware that slavery is very much alive and there are in fact methods of reducing and stopping slavery. The authors provide criteria in which helps in the identifying of a slave because people increasingly are clueless on what and how to identify a slave. According to the authors, a slave is under complete control by one or more people, through the use of violence, physical
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Slavery has always been a part of America, and it is still today. When the TAST was prominent in America, slaves where most commonly African and African American, but today slavery is the home of “equal opportunity” in which the modern day slave comes in a variety of races, ages, gender and, ethnicities (B&S 6). The authors provide a study the U.S. State Department conducted that resulted in the discovery that some 14,500 to 17,500 people are trafficked and brought to the United States from other countries and nations every year (B&S 6). This includes enslaved humans from Africa, Asia, India, China, Latin America, and even from former Soviet states (B&S 6). Organizations like the Free the Slaves and the Human Rights Center studied slavery in America in 2004 and found out that people were being trafficked from 35 countries and where being brought to America to work against their will (B&S 14). Even native-born citizens can easily fall victims to slavery and trafficking, they’re snatched right off the streets of cities and communities because slavery does not care about who its victim is, just if the person is vulnerable enough to enslave and if the potential for profit is great. Adding to the heartbreak, government officials state that about half of trafficking victims are children (B&S 16). Slavery does not care who you are, where you are from, or anything for that matter. We now live in a society where everyone constantly exposed to the possible danger of human trafficking, and completely unaware of it. America and its people are used to the picture history books have painted of African Americans forced into slavery on plantations, forgetting about how now, slavery has evolved beyond that and that everyone is at risk. Slavery
Slavery has always been a part of America, and it is still today. When the TAST was prominent in America, slaves where most commonly African and African American, but today slavery is the home of “equal opportunity” in which the modern day slave comes in a variety of races, ages, gender and, ethnicities (B&S 6). The authors provide a study the U.S. State Department conducted that resulted in the discovery that some 14,500 to 17,500 people are trafficked and brought to the United States from other countries and nations every year (B&S 6). This includes enslaved humans from Africa, Asia, India, China, Latin America, and even from former Soviet states (B&S 6). Organizations like the Free the Slaves and the Human Rights Center studied slavery in America in 2004 and found out that people were being trafficked from 35 countries and where being brought to America to work against their will (B&S 14). Even native-born citizens can easily fall victims to slavery and trafficking, they’re snatched right off the streets of cities and communities because slavery does not care about who its victim is, just if the person is vulnerable enough to enslave and if the potential for profit is great. Adding to the heartbreak, government officials state that about half of trafficking victims are children (B&S 16). Slavery does not care who you are, where you are from, or anything for that matter. We now live in a society where everyone constantly exposed to the possible danger of human trafficking, and completely unaware of it. America and its people are used to the picture history books have painted of African Americans forced into slavery on plantations, forgetting about how now, slavery has evolved beyond that and that everyone is at risk. Slavery