Slavery Has Not Been Erradicated

As of today, a plethora of people think slavery is eradicated. While that statement is true the International Labor Organization (ILO) states that there are approximately 20.9 million men, women, and children around the world currently enslaved. Generally speaking, some people will think that statement to be false. The reason is because majority of people think slavery as the Trans-Atlantic Slavery Trade. It captured enormous amount of Africans and transported them to the West Indies and United States to work on plantations. Even though slavery was abolished in the 19th century, it still exists today but in different types of forms.

In 1619, African slaves were brought to North America to work in the colony Jamestown, Virginia. The British, who brought the slaves over, wanted the Africans to aid in the production of money-making crops most notably, tobacco and cotton. Following that in the 17th and 18th century slavery was practiced throughout the entire nation. Slaves became the backbone of this country. When the 19th century came rolling around so did America expansion westward. That being said it provoked an abolished movement that lead to a bloody Civil War (1861-1865) between the North of United States and South of United States. Even though, the Union defeated the rebels, the legacy of slavery does influence America culture today.

According to the ILO, slavery in the 21st century is defined as people being sold like/as objects and/or forced to work for little or no pay for mercy from their employer’s.

Even though, there are multiple characteristics that distinguish slavery from human rights violation, nonetheless a person only needs one human being to be present for slavery to exist. Someone is enslaved when the person ...

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...that want to make a profit from exploiting other people, for example the government. The government recruits people to join their military service and in return nothing except threats and affronts for example Burman, North Korea and China. Mentioning that, there is forced labor all over the world it just more dominant in Asia and Pacific area according to the ILO.

In brief, according to the rephrased proverb “history repeats itself,” stated by Rufus Historie means that slavery will be repeated once again but in a different formation. That formation may vary. Even though, modern day slavery has some same characteristics as human right violations. To reiterate what I said the difference is you need one person to exist instead plethora amount of people to be considered slavery. Therefore, slavery still exist today, and it is a major problem that needs to be corrected