How Does Slavery Exist Today

Modern Slavery Slavery is when an individual is owned by others who have complete control over their life. They control every aspect form where they sleep to what they eat and wear. These individual are seen as property and are forced to work in poor conditions with little to no wages. When we hear the word, slavery, people may think about the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade of the captured Africans that were shipped to America. Slavery began many years before this and is even referred to in the Bible in Jeremiah, Genesis, and Revelations. Contradictory to what many may think slavery is still happening. In this essay I will discuss types of modern slavery that exists in the world today. According to Anti-Slavery International, an organization
Some see child labor as being useful and a positive experience for the child. They believe it will teach them responsibility and provide them with work skills to help them in the future. In reality, the children are thrown into hazardous conditions that affect their education, personal, and social development and puts their life and health at risk. Most children that are in this situation do it because their families are poor and it is necessary for survival. “Children may have to resort to child labor because of compelling conditions such as poverty or social exclusion” (van de Glind,
Descent slavery occurs when people are either born into slavery or belong to a group that society views a being a slave caste. “In these societies there exists a strict hierarchy based along ethic and sometimes racial lives” (ASI). When a person is born into this type of slavery they have no control over their own lives. They become property of their master the moment they are born and sometimes the masters have been known for giving the newborn away as gifts and even wedding presents. Slaves are denied an education, not allowed to marry outside their caste, can’t own land or inherit property. In this form of slavery women receive the worst treatment just because they are female and of the slave cast. “Female slaves are frequently beaten and raped by their masters who consider them to be their property” (ASI). Even if descent based slaves are freed they are still controlled by their former master. The master can still choose how they vote, who they marry and inherit their property when they