MODERN DAY SLAVERY

Modern Day Slavery

Abstract

This paper addresses modern day slavery with proper discussion on types of slavery present today. Chattel slavery, contract slavery, debt bondage slavery, sex slavery and servile or forced marriage slavery has been discussed in details. The paper sheds light on the 21st century problem of slavery and law enforcement can combat this very inhuman crime.

Table of Contents

ABSTRACT2

INTRODUCTION: NATURE/EXTENT OF PROBLEM4

DATA AND DESCRIPTION OF OFFENDERS/VICTIMS6

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION: DESCRIPTIONS OF TRANSIT/ORIGIN/DESTINATION COUNTRIES8

Chattel Slavery9

Contract Slavery13

Debt Bondage Slavery14

Sexual slavery15

Servile or forced marriage16

WHAT LEGAL AND ENFORCEMENT STRATEGIES ARE AVAILABLE TO PREVENT THE PROBLEM16

OTHER RELATED ISSUES PERTINENT TO THE SPECIFIC TOPIC THAT YOU CAN ENLIGHTEN THE READERS.18

REFERENCES21

Modern Day Slavery

Introduction: Nature/Extent of Problem

Contemporary images and theories of slavery have become deeply entwined with the constructions of modern slavery in the New World. This entwinement is due to the reality that the institution of slavery was the primary mold of the conquered New World. From its overall scale, its rationalization of labor, and its integration within a capitalist mode of production to its legally sanctioned discipline of the body and its powerful demographic and geographic effects, slavery in the New World constituted the most ambitious enterprise of this sort. From the 16th to the 19th century, nearly 11 million people were shipped as slaves to the Americas and were forced in what was historically unprecedented to labor for the remainder of their lives in societies run by culturally, linguistically, and ethnically distinct people. Not surprisingly, anthropology's images and theories have drawn largely from the abundant historiography of slavery in the United States.

They thus tend to depict slavery in its American and Caribbean plantation form, where African slaves were property (as legally defined in the Code Noir), subject to compulsory labor, familial separations, and systematic dehumanization. Variations in these representations do exist, however, including the idyllic way Brazilian slavery has been represented by Gilberto Freyre (contrasted with the institution of slavery in the United States). Despite its scale and historical importance, modern EuroAmerican slavery was but one incarnation of slavery among many others present across a wide spectrum of societies. Historians, in particular, have generated a substantial body of work on the patterns and pervasiveness of slavery in Europe going back to the Greeks and Romans and persisting through medieval Christendom.

Law and the Global Practice of Slavery

Slavery flourished in the two distinct juridical traditions—Iberian and Anglo-Saxon—with almost global reach during the period of the Atlantic slave trade. Studies indicate some diversity in the practice of slavery and its subsequent abolition processes, but the sustainability and inherent brutality was a common feature in various slave traditions.

United States

The strongest jurisprudence regarding the issue of slavery developed in the recently independent United States. As the country did not yet have a body of autonomous laws, it continued to apply British legislation to deal with conflicts between slaves and slave owners. The Somerset case, so important in England, had raised many issues among judges and jurists in the United States because it established that any slave who ...