A distinct correlation between slavery in the past and modern-day slavery; Human Trafficking is that in both, victims are treated with brutality, violence, and sexual, physical and/or mental abuse. According to article on Boundless, the authors stated:
Punishment [slavery in the past] was often meted out in response to disobedience or perceived infractions, but sometimes abuse was carried out simply to reassert the dominance of the master/overseer. Slaveholders whipped, shackled, hanged, beat, burned, mutilated, branded, and imprisoned slaves. Slave women and girls were often subject to rape and sexual abuse. (Boundless, 2016)
The quotation above resembles the use of violence and abuse associated with slavery in the past. Comparatively, it …show more content…
In both cases, it is noticed that most victims have to suffer through the inhumane act of branding. Through the usage of these tattoos, these criminals can ensure that no matter what happens to the victim in the future, they will always have a reminder of this awful time. Additionally, even if the victim wanted it removed, they wouldn’t have enough money to go through the treatment thus they might never get closure from this horrific past. Moreover, such an act still doesn’t have a punishment. The act of branding can have devastating mental effects, yet why is there nothing been done about it? By including this as a part of an international law could greatly reduce the use of such unethical methods of punishment. To summarize, branding/tattooing another individual without their consent is another similarity between slavery in the past, and human trafficking and it should be included as an international …show more content…
It is thought that by accepting such facts, it would in a way encourage them. For instance decriminalizing marijuana is the cause of a lot of discomfort in the society because to some individuals it means that the government is encouraging the use of drugs, but they don’t realize that marijuana would actually benefit the economy greatly. Similarly, both the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Human Trafficking have a large economical impact in the community. Both slavery in the past and human trafficking arose from the need of labour and money in the economy. Additionally, both businesses benefit the perpetrators, and other agencies. During the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the world needed laborers, and in our world today there is a demand for labor but of different sorts. Frederick Douglass (reflecting on the slave trade), said that in 1871 the goal of slaveholders during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade “was to make the most money they could in the shortest possible time. Human Nature is the same now as it was then” (Swanson, 2015). His statement still rings true in 2016. Believe it or not, slavery in the past has helped shape the economy today. A study conducted on this theory enclosed
Punishment [slavery in the past] was often meted out in response to disobedience or perceived infractions, but sometimes abuse was carried out simply to reassert the dominance of the master/overseer. Slaveholders whipped, shackled, hanged, beat, burned, mutilated, branded, and imprisoned slaves. Slave women and girls were often subject to rape and sexual abuse. (Boundless, 2016)
The quotation above resembles the use of violence and abuse associated with slavery in the past. Comparatively, it …show more content…
In both cases, it is noticed that most victims have to suffer through the inhumane act of branding. Through the usage of these tattoos, these criminals can ensure that no matter what happens to the victim in the future, they will always have a reminder of this awful time. Additionally, even if the victim wanted it removed, they wouldn’t have enough money to go through the treatment thus they might never get closure from this horrific past. Moreover, such an act still doesn’t have a punishment. The act of branding can have devastating mental effects, yet why is there nothing been done about it? By including this as a part of an international law could greatly reduce the use of such unethical methods of punishment. To summarize, branding/tattooing another individual without their consent is another similarity between slavery in the past, and human trafficking and it should be included as an international …show more content…
It is thought that by accepting such facts, it would in a way encourage them. For instance decriminalizing marijuana is the cause of a lot of discomfort in the society because to some individuals it means that the government is encouraging the use of drugs, but they don’t realize that marijuana would actually benefit the economy greatly. Similarly, both the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Human Trafficking have a large economical impact in the community. Both slavery in the past and human trafficking arose from the need of labour and money in the economy. Additionally, both businesses benefit the perpetrators, and other agencies. During the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the world needed laborers, and in our world today there is a demand for labor but of different sorts. Frederick Douglass (reflecting on the slave trade), said that in 1871 the goal of slaveholders during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade “was to make the most money they could in the shortest possible time. Human Nature is the same now as it was then” (Swanson, 2015). His statement still rings true in 2016. Believe it or not, slavery in the past has helped shape the economy today. A study conducted on this theory enclosed