Discussion #6
Before opening this assignment, I used to think slavery has been abolished from the world years ago. Modern slavery!! Does it even exist?? But the answer to my question was a big “yes, it still exists, but, in different forms.” I was quite shocked to know that in present era, there are more than 30 million slaves around the world. My professor said in the class that we can even calculate how much slaves are working under me. Isn’t it too strange? Among many forms of modern slavery, sex trafficking held the highest position of slavery business in the world. It is quite surprising to say that present days slave population outnumber the slave population during Trans- Atlantic slave trade. World war is one of the potential causes of today’s slave population because many people lost their families. There is different between old slavery system and new slavery system. One of them is that in old slavery slaves were considered as property while modern slavery believes in “cheap lives” and “big profits”. No wonder, slavery is not going to end this world as new forms of slavery is emerging.