Modern Day Slavery

Human Trafficking: Modern Day Slavery
History classes across the nation explain the past and never forget to mention slavery, but they never seem to explain how the past is portrayed in today's society. Human trafficking is the action of illegal transport of people from one area to the next for the purpose of forced labor or sexual exploitation. Forced labor is typically found in industries including domestic work, prostitution, and other illegal activities. Around three in one thousand people suffer from this problem around the world making it difficult to look the other way. (“What is Modern Day Slavery?”). Shown through abuse, lack of income, the absence of freedom, and the social acceptance in some regions of the world it is valid to identify
Lack of income proves that human trafficking is the modern day slavery. Labor trafficking includes situations of debt bondage, forced labor, and involuntary child labor. Labor traffickers use violence, threats, lies, and other forms of coercion to force people to work against their will in many industries. These victims are "often beaten, starved, and forced to work […] with little or no pay." ("Human Trafficking/Involuntary Servitude – FBI"). The fact that these victims don’t get paid for any of the work they do can easily be related to the African slaves that didn’t get paid for any of the labor they did in the homes or fields of their masters. The laborers involved are usually taken out of civilization against their will. They are then forced to work domestically or sexually. This is comparable to how the Africans were taken from Africa and thrown into plantations where they endured long hours of work with no pay. The labor that these victims are forced to comes with no pay and the loss of
in the eyes of many, human trafficking is a personal choice and is a form of prostitution. These assumptions most likely come from hearings from court cases that involve human trafficking victims. Kate Mogulescu, the founder of Legal Aid Society's Trafficking Victims Advocacy Project, explains that sometimes these victims are charged for prostitution and they are supposed to see the court system as a way of saving them. (Valenti). They are basically charging these victims for a crime that they were forced to commit and explaining that even though they are in trouble for prostitution they are being saved. Many do not understand what is happening behind the scenes. The victims are being saved by their captor, but in the eyes of the public they are being criminalized. There are many ideas behind this logic; the most practical one being is that the court system does not want actual prostitutes to say that they are being trafficked in order to escape