History Of Human Trafficking

There is a dark side of human interaction, a human institution that for centuries has been called slavery. Slavery is a fearful concept; it is as fearful as rape and even murder. Slavery is outlawed in many nations, but human trafficking remains to this day. Human trafficking is an abuse of power of position over vulnerable human beings for the purpose of exploitation. So has slavery really ended, or has humanity allowed it to evolve into different forms?
The word represents an explosive concept in our nation’s history. It is one so powerful that we feel its reverberations today. To the vicious, the word is exciting, but to the compassionate, the word is deadening. And now the word’s reverberations begin to ring louder, resonating from what
And by “slavery” too often we think of past confinements of African Americans or different minorities, in this inhuman activity there is no color category that these victims are put into; no race or gender is exempt. According to the legislation, up to 800,000 individuals each year--80 percent of whom are women and girls--are internationally trafficked or commercially exploited for sex or labor. (Kennel-Shank, April 2006). In their case studies on the globalization of human trafficking, there is one that hits a chord that sounds strikingly similar to the jazzy chords familiar to our home city. Chicago, NFS says, is a place where a club owner can, with a simple phone call, “mail-order” girls from Eastern Europe that will appear in his club by the end of the week. There, they “dance,” which, in the global language of slavery, means sex trafficking. All too often, the victims are at an average of 17 years old–any older, experts say, and the adolescent prostitutes loose their “youthful charm.”
Anyone can complain about an issue, bark out facts, and with rhetoric and inflection seems to move the sheepish American masses to tears, creating a new trend in the fashion of fear. It takes progress, action, and ideas to solve such
Not that I’m saying we should castrate the man, but with education and exposure, the underground trade of human beings would be revealed to a country that I know would not tolerate the same mistake again. Vigilance is key as well. Law enforcement needs to crack down on the exploitation of humans. Everyday one can turn on the television and hear of a mediocre drug raid. When will we hear of slave raids? Speaking of hearing of these slave raids, more awareness needs to be spread. It is our duty as fellow humans to support programs like NFS (Not For Sale) – an organization that, through education and supplement will expose the true evil nature that is still alive today. When children learn of the Harriet Tubmans’ and the Fredrick Douglas’s, they need to hear of the Clare Hanuszs and the Not For Sales of the world. A slave, by any other name, still weeps as sweetly. There are options for prevention, but there are options for recovery too. Just because that girl is “dancing” one night and the club is busted the next, she still goes home to her memories, to her poverty, to the depravity that led her right down the path that ended up only driving her more