“Trafficking in persons,” “human trafficking,” and “modern slavery” are used as umbrella terms to refer to both sex trafficking and compelled labor. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-386), as amended (TVPA), and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (the Palermo Protocol) describe this compelled service using a number of different terms, including involuntary servitude, slavery or practices similar to slavery, debt bondage, and forced labor.
Human trafficking can include, but does not require, movement. People may be considered trafficking victims regardless of whether they were born into a state of servitude, were exploited in their home town, were transported to the exploitative situation, previously consented to work for a trafficker, or participated in a crime as a direct result of being trafficked. At the heart of this phenomenon is the traffickers’ aim to exploit and enslave their victims and the myriad coercive and deceptive practices they use to do so. SOURCE: US Department of State
BUT... if you talk with African Americans or Blacks or People of Color, they will tell you that this is not what they are talking about when they refer to modern slavery in America...
Modern Slavery in America, according to THEM (see above) refers to the WHITE MAN controlling most of the employment opportunities and not hiring blacks unless s/he has to because of some government mandate.
Modern Slavery in America according to THEM refers to all the black people that are incarcerated in prison... more blacks than whites they will tell you which is a reflection of white bias in the court system and among the white policemen.
Modern Slavery in America according to THEM refers to the urban neighborhoods that black people are forced to live in because of their low wages and inability to attend college.
Modern Slavery in America according to THEM refers to all the white people who look down their noses at black people... the way they dress... the way they talk... the way they think... and, because white people are different they think that they are better..
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