By Marisa Zeppieri-Caruana
THE GOOD NEWS
What comes to mind when you hear the term
“slavery”? Do you recall history lessons in school of
transatlantic slave trading? Perhaps you think of
images of slavery right here in the United States
consisting of...
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By Marisa Zeppieri-Caruana
THE GOOD NEWS
What comes to mind when you hear the term
“slavery”? Do you recall history lessons in school of
transatlantic slave trading? Perhaps you think of
images of slavery right here in the United States
consisting of plantation systems, where tobacco and
cotton were grown.
Those days are long behind us,
right?
Wrong.
Slavery is more prevalent today
than any other time in history and
encompasses many different forms,
including sex slavery, labor slavery,
child soldiers and child slavery.
Not
only is slavery and human
trafficking running rampant, both
here in the United States and across
the globe, but the amount of money it brings in to
those running the operations is staggering –
upwards of $36 billion in profit off the sale of human
flesh has been made to date.
In 2007, slave traders made eight times the
amount of the annual U.
N.
budget.
It is estimated
that approximately 27 million people are entrapped in
some form of slavery today, and a slav
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