Is There a Difference Between Modern Slavery and Slavery?

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What is slavery? Is there a difference between modern slavery and slavery? Is it important? Slavery has been in the world over twenty million to thirty millions of years (This needs to be cited in the text(Last name, date)). Modern slavery still exist in America it is an important thing to be caution of. Even though slavery is known as a past thing a lot of people believe it’s all over, or is it? Slavery is something no one should go through, I believe everyone has their own rights and should decide how they live their lives and nobody should beat them down or tell them how things are supposed to be. Will this ever stop? Who will actually step up to the people that are in charge? How would the world be if slavery never existed?

According to the International Labor Organization there are 20.9 million of men, women, and children involved in today’s modern slavery. People are still forced to be sold still, they’re also forced to work where they don’t want to with getting paid or not. If someone is in slavery they are either owned or control by their “employer”, usually by mental or physical control abuse or threat of abuse. Also they are physically constrained or has restrictions in his/hers freedom of movement in another way they have no freedom unless their “owner decides for them when they will have their freedom. Finally the types of slavery that are still going on are “Bonded labour, child slavery, early and forced for marriage, forced labour, decent-based slavery, and trafficking”. A lot of people think slavery doesn’t happen no more but it really is.

Slavery still at the moment happens all over the world it is not as noticeable because a lot of the slavery new never goes on no more. But kids are used for slavery unti...

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...around the world is they have freedom. But I believe everyone should once in a while research to see what still goes on and see what kind of world we are in. Finally I think people should be more interested because what if everything comes back? So they could at least have a plan if it were to eve come back. This is how modern slavery is now and what has been happening in the world while everyone thinks it doesn’t exists no more.

Works Cited

Burroughs Dillon “Not in my town: Exposing and ending human trafficking Kevin “New slavery: A reference handbook”

Website Resources:

www.ihrb.org

www.polarisproject.org

www.theguardian.com

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