How Does Slavery Exist Today

Alan Mendonca
Mr. Fowler
English 11 A H
February 20th, 2014 Slave Trafficking Being controlled by someone is an issue that all Americans have because as Americans especially in New Hampshire “Live Free or Die” is the motto. This motto has taken an unfortunate twist in the past as well as now. The mistreatment of others has been one of the biggest topics on the news in 2014-2015. Discrimination because of race, gender and orientation had always been a problem in that past, and it is still problematic issue in today’s culture. In recent days there have been great deal clashes with law enforcement because of color discrimination. Whether right or wrong, many people believe that color of skin played an important role in these fatal decisions.
Many don’t think that slavery exists in today’s world but that is completely false. The new slavery which is prominent in today’s world is human trafficking, it involves capturing women and children and selling them as sex slaves or servants. Different from the past slavery, human trafficking involves many twists but also many similarities to slavery in the past. Even though slavery was prominent in the past, human trafficking, a new type of slavery with similar qualities, is rising up affecting a larger number of people.
One race discriminating against another race is the reason why slavery existed in the past. Slavery started off as a minor issue in the 1600’s but became a debatable subject in the1800’s. Debatable or not, slavery is a major issue that many people overlook because of the cultural norms during that time period. The norms being, all African Americans worked on farms or in their “masters” house, workers
The slaves in the past were mostly from the improvised communities and poverty stricken parts of Africa. Senegambia, the western part of Africa (known as in the past) was the main region where slaves were bought from. Many don’t think that slavery was widespread in America because, “Though it is impossible to give accurate figures, some historians have estimated that 6 to 7 million slaves were imported to the New World during the 18th century alone (“Slavery”). These slaves were shipped across the world to work on fields and houses of those who bought them for their purpose. Because it unfeasible to give precise numbers on the amount of slaves in the past, it is difficult to compare one as worse than the other. On the contrary, there are any statistics that show the number of enslaved by human trafficking. 21 billion people are trafficked every year all around the world and about 60,000 in the U.S alone (Cullen). But the reason for being trafficked is different from past slavery. The new age of slavery is focuses on sex and money. Women and children are kidnapped and sold all around the world to whoever buys them. Compared to slavery in the past, human trafficking is an international problem. Slavery has always been an international problem especially in the countries of Mauritania, Haiti, Pakistan and India (“10 Statistics”). These