How Did Slavery End With The 13th Amendment?
Did slavery end with the 13th amendment? The 13th amendment abolished slavery in
1864, but that does not mean it’s gone for good. Modern day slavery happens right in
Front of our eyes without us knowing. One way of modern day slavery is human sex
trafficking. In the film “48 Hours-Live to Tell; Trafficked” a young girl named Alyssa was a
victim of this type of modern day slavery. Alyssa ran away from home without knowing
the streets or the bad things that came with it. Her everyday life was allowing guys to
come and pay $10 or $20 to do whatever they wanted to her and she was being
forced do it, there was even a time when she had sexual intercourse with …show more content…
They target girls with a low self esteem and also find a vulnerability and they
jump on it. If you try to run away they start to threaten to harm your family. On the
film, one of the traffickers said “I’m enslaving these girls”. There was a point of time
where Alyssa managed to get away from that life, she was out looking for a job and
some guy asked if she wanted to be a masseuse and of course she said yes without
knowing what she was getting herself into. Getting lured back into the sex trafficking
world happens to girls all the time. The International Labour Organization estimates that
there are 40.3 million victims of human trafficking globally, 81% of them are trapped in
forced labor, 25% of them are children, 75% are women and girls. In 2016, an
estimated 1 out of 6 endangered runaways reported to the National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children were likely child sex trafficking victims. Of those, 86% were in
the care of social services or foster care when they ran. Another form of modern
1864, but that does not mean it’s gone for good. Modern day slavery happens right in
Front of our eyes without us knowing. One way of modern day slavery is human sex
trafficking. In the film “48 Hours-Live to Tell; Trafficked” a young girl named Alyssa was a
victim of this type of modern day slavery. Alyssa ran away from home without knowing
the streets or the bad things that came with it. Her everyday life was allowing guys to
come and pay $10 or $20 to do whatever they wanted to her and she was being
forced do it, there was even a time when she had sexual intercourse with …show more content…
They target girls with a low self esteem and also find a vulnerability and they
jump on it. If you try to run away they start to threaten to harm your family. On the
film, one of the traffickers said “I’m enslaving these girls”. There was a point of time
where Alyssa managed to get away from that life, she was out looking for a job and
some guy asked if she wanted to be a masseuse and of course she said yes without
knowing what she was getting herself into. Getting lured back into the sex trafficking
world happens to girls all the time. The International Labour Organization estimates that
there are 40.3 million victims of human trafficking globally, 81% of them are trapped in
forced labor, 25% of them are children, 75% are women and girls. In 2016, an
estimated 1 out of 6 endangered runaways reported to the National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children were likely child sex trafficking victims. Of those, 86% were in
the care of social services or foster care when they ran. Another form of modern