In 2008, Twentieth Century Fox released the blockbuster film, Taken, an action-packed thriller that starred Irish actor, Liam Neeson. He played the character, Brian Mills, a former CIA government official. In the movie, he learns about his daughter’s abduction, while she and her girlfriend are visiting Paris, France. The viewer learns that his daughter had been abducted by an Albanian sex-trafficking gang, with the sole intent of selling Mills’ daughter as a prostitute in Europe. This movie truly exposes the shameful truth of a very real problem in today’s society. While Hollywood and television networks highlight the problem of modern slavery, the reality is that this type of enslavement is practiced throughout the world today. Slavery is
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Once individuals are trapped, they are exploited like a slave.
iii. Victims are held against their will; cannot walk away or speak out; trapped in captivity.
iv. Human trafficking is a heinous offense against an individual; he or she is the victim.
1. Modern forms of slavery are present in societies across the globe; this is a serious global problem. Slavery exists in every country, including the United States of America. It exists in cities, in the suburbs, as well as in rural communities. As noted by Kevin Bales in his book entitled, The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery In America Today, “Slaves are all around us, hidden in plains sight.”
Footnote: Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter, The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery In America Today (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2009), 2.
2. Connect to the Middle Passage
a. “Unlike other forms it assumed in the past centuries, slavery today, almost never involves the legal buying and selling of individuals.”
Footnote: Jesse Sage and Liora Kasten, eds, Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006), …show more content…
During this period, it was estimated that 12.5 million African slaves were brutalized during transport to the American colonies. These despondent human beings were forced into slavery and deprived of their identities. The physical and psychological abuse they endured changed their lives forever. Arguably, human trafficking that exists in the twenty-first century is even more brutal.
i. “There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The modern commerce in humans rivals illegal trafficking in its global reach—and in the destruction of lives.”
Footnote: Andrew Cockburn, "21st-Century Slaves," National Geographic Magazine, accessed January 3, 2016, http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0309/feature1/.
ii. “The Atlantic slave trade would take more than eleven million black slaves from Africa to the Americas encompassing one of the most elaborate and profitable commercial slavery ventures the world had ever known. The African slave trade peaked in the late 1700s when slaves were captured in West Africa and shipped to the New World in larger waves than ever to meet demand. Some estimate that over the centuries, more than twelve million Africans were
Once individuals are trapped, they are exploited like a slave.
iii. Victims are held against their will; cannot walk away or speak out; trapped in captivity.
iv. Human trafficking is a heinous offense against an individual; he or she is the victim.
1. Modern forms of slavery are present in societies across the globe; this is a serious global problem. Slavery exists in every country, including the United States of America. It exists in cities, in the suburbs, as well as in rural communities. As noted by Kevin Bales in his book entitled, The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery In America Today, “Slaves are all around us, hidden in plains sight.”
Footnote: Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter, The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery In America Today (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2009), 2.
2. Connect to the Middle Passage
a. “Unlike other forms it assumed in the past centuries, slavery today, almost never involves the legal buying and selling of individuals.”
Footnote: Jesse Sage and Liora Kasten, eds, Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006), …show more content…
During this period, it was estimated that 12.5 million African slaves were brutalized during transport to the American colonies. These despondent human beings were forced into slavery and deprived of their identities. The physical and psychological abuse they endured changed their lives forever. Arguably, human trafficking that exists in the twenty-first century is even more brutal.
i. “There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The modern commerce in humans rivals illegal trafficking in its global reach—and in the destruction of lives.”
Footnote: Andrew Cockburn, "21st-Century Slaves," National Geographic Magazine, accessed January 3, 2016, http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0309/feature1/.
ii. “The Atlantic slave trade would take more than eleven million black slaves from Africa to the Americas encompassing one of the most elaborate and profitable commercial slavery ventures the world had ever known. The African slave trade peaked in the late 1700s when slaves were captured in West Africa and shipped to the New World in larger waves than ever to meet demand. Some estimate that over the centuries, more than twelve million Africans were