Human trafficking has been around in history for thousands and thousands of years. It became popular around 1400 when Europe started to sell and buy humans from Africa. Slowly, Spain, North America, Holland, France, Sweden, Britain, and Denmark had become involved in the European slave trade from Africa. Sooner or later, “white slavery” had come into play which was the new form of slavery but now for sexual purposes. They would obtain woman or girls by the use of “force, drugs, or by dishonesty- for sex which is unwanted by the woman or girl”. As society became modern, many countries had started to pass bills and laws in order to punish human trafficking whenever it was caught. In 1904, there was a worldwide agreement against “white slavery” and around 1910, 13 countries had come together to claim this type of slavery illegal. Even though many countries have made the effort to banish human trafficking, it still very much exists today, especially internationally.
Source: https://sexualexploitatio.weebly.com/history-of-human-trafficking.html
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