Have you ever thought to yourself, “Was slavery really abolished?” That can’t be. Before Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery, humans walked this Earth owning one another. How is this possible? Can you own someone else? Yes, sadly but truly you can. That’s when more questions arise. What is a slave? A slave is person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. They are forced and it’s legal? How is owning someone legal? Forced indicates that person has no say so in the matter. Slaves and masters lived for years, even raising humans in that predicament. That’s all past slaves know for generations on. Just because Lincoln abolished slavery, doesn’t mean it’s actually gone. Humans are still enslaved today. There are women
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Human trafficking involves men, women and children being brought into a situation of exploitation through the use of violence, deception and forced to work against their will. This includes forced prostitution, labour, marriage and servitude. Did you know the average cost of a slave is generally around ninety dollars? About eighty percent of trafficking involves sexual exploitation and about nineteen percent involves labor exploitation. A lot of people are trafficked across international borders, that includes about six hundred-thousand to eight hundred-thousand people every year, eighty percent are women and forty percent are children. Men are rarely trafficked. I’m guessing men don’t make good enough whores for traffickers. The average age of teens in the sex trade is 12-14 years old, which is pretty young. In the United States of America, more people are reported being taken for trafficking in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area than in any other state. Roughly 14,500 to 17,500 people are trafficked into the United States each year. Now imagine walking home from school or work on a sunny day and a van pulls up on you, then kidnaps you. These people in the van may or may not speak English, so you probably don’t know what they are saying or where they are taking you. Your adrenaline is rising at a super high pace making you fall asleep. You are asleep until you feel a sudden breeze of cold air.
Human trafficking involves men, women and children being brought into a situation of exploitation through the use of violence, deception and forced to work against their will. This includes forced prostitution, labour, marriage and servitude. Did you know the average cost of a slave is generally around ninety dollars? About eighty percent of trafficking involves sexual exploitation and about nineteen percent involves labor exploitation. A lot of people are trafficked across international borders, that includes about six hundred-thousand to eight hundred-thousand people every year, eighty percent are women and forty percent are children. Men are rarely trafficked. I’m guessing men don’t make good enough whores for traffickers. The average age of teens in the sex trade is 12-14 years old, which is pretty young. In the United States of America, more people are reported being taken for trafficking in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area than in any other state. Roughly 14,500 to 17,500 people are trafficked into the United States each year. Now imagine walking home from school or work on a sunny day and a van pulls up on you, then kidnaps you. These people in the van may or may not speak English, so you probably don’t know what they are saying or where they are taking you. Your adrenaline is rising at a super high pace making you fall asleep. You are asleep until you feel a sudden breeze of cold air.