Last week, Boston College 's R.E.A.C.T (Rallying Efforts Against Contemporary Trafficking) group hosted a panel on trafficking called Breaking the Chains: A Panel on Human Trafficking. For a compelling hour and a half the four speakers (Eileen Campbell, Jasmine Marino, Stephanie Clark, and Sarah Durfey) gripped the audience with true tales of the contemporary slave trade both in the U.S and abroad; while dispelling rumors and myths associated with human trafficking today. Human trafficking is nothing like what we see portrayed in hollywood. It is not neat or glamorous and Liam Neeson I not saving women left and right. Realistically, the plight of women in sex slavery today draws some very close parallels to the chattel slavery of the 18th
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mentality was addressed through a cyclical model of abuse from seller to sold to buyer. each of these parties having their own mental issue that they are projecting on the other parties to perpetuate sex slavery. in the case of sex slavery one predominant link that could be placed with all parties was a history of sexual abuse. early on sexual abuse stunts most of the players in the sex market and is a main force driving the entire industry. In chattel slavery there is not one lightning rod source of mental damage that runs through all parties but there are several individual issues that we see with each party.“he told me that I was made for his use, made to obey his command in everything; that I was nothing but a slave, whose will must and should surrender to his” (Jacob 's, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 29.) Doctor Flint was a truly sick man. At any point in the plot of Incidents in the life of a slave girll he could have easily raped linda and it would have been the end of the story. In a very twisted way he needed her to submit to him in every facet mentally and physically. This mental ownership is a huge part of the contemporary slave trade. Women are treated as objects and are mentally pummeled into a position similar to that of the “new negro” where the prospect of freedom and escape are striped from them and replaced with complacency and inward
mentality was addressed through a cyclical model of abuse from seller to sold to buyer. each of these parties having their own mental issue that they are projecting on the other parties to perpetuate sex slavery. in the case of sex slavery one predominant link that could be placed with all parties was a history of sexual abuse. early on sexual abuse stunts most of the players in the sex market and is a main force driving the entire industry. In chattel slavery there is not one lightning rod source of mental damage that runs through all parties but there are several individual issues that we see with each party.“he told me that I was made for his use, made to obey his command in everything; that I was nothing but a slave, whose will must and should surrender to his” (Jacob 's, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 29.) Doctor Flint was a truly sick man. At any point in the plot of Incidents in the life of a slave girll he could have easily raped linda and it would have been the end of the story. In a very twisted way he needed her to submit to him in every facet mentally and physically. This mental ownership is a huge part of the contemporary slave trade. Women are treated as objects and are mentally pummeled into a position similar to that of the “new negro” where the prospect of freedom and escape are striped from them and replaced with complacency and inward