Jude Trokosi Slavery

The American public school system will often routinely employ the idea to their history class students that slavery is merely a horror from the past and its ideals and effects are no longer relevant in today’s supposed postslavery society. Definitions of slavery also often get confused, conferred, and interchanged with human rights abuses that are not slavery, but can be nevertheless, just as exploitive, dangerous, and in need of relief. Rather, slavery must contain the loss of free will, violence, and appropriation of labor power, all factors responsible for the continuation of Trokosi, a sexual type slavery that occurs in the Global South. Despite this myth that seems to completely dismiss the U.S’s idealistic claim that slavery is no longer a domestic nor international issue, this exploitative practice continues to persist in most areas of the world, including West Africa, due to economic and religious influences that ultimately help maintain this sexist and abusive cycle of …show more content…
These daughters, who are specifically targeted for their virginity, serve as willing or unwilling restitution for debts owed by their families to the church, in which these girls not only become enslaved to forced labor, but also to their masters’ sexual demands. The priests’ orders must even be complied by all parties involved to ultimately avoid the wrath of the gods and attain their affirmation. Despite multiple efforts by many West African nations, along with other international aids, Trokosi continues to be a heavily practiced phenomenon in this area that rarely implicates and enforces any legislation aimed to combat it. Trokosi ultimately benefits the priests in power by domineering the weak, the submissive, and the dehumanized women imprisoned in these oppressive