Has Slavery Really Dissapeared or Just Evolved?

Slavery has been on my mind a lot lately especially because a lot of History classes have been talking about it. While skimming through CNN one article titled "We still need to end slavery" really caught my eye. I had always thought that slavery ended hundreds of years ago but after reading this article my mind has really changed. The full article can be read here but the basic point of the article is that although slavery was "abolished" years and years ago, modern slavery here in the U.S. is happening. Slavery today may not be as brutal as it was in the 1800's but it is still a lot like the slavery hundreds of years ago we have all been learning about since grade school. 

The article says, "Modern slavery is the man who was promised a job on a farm to earn enough money to pay for his parents' medical care, then forced to work long hours, intimidated with violence, and made to live in deplorable conditions in a cramped room with his co-workers." To me, this quote sounds a lot like the stories we hear about the slaves and their conditions on the plantations. The article also gives another example and says, " Modern slavery is the 15-year-old girl who was romanced and recruited by a pimp, then raped, beaten, and sold online into the commercial sex trade." Although human trafficing is illegal, this article and the picture above makes it clear that is still going on because it is so profitable. In 2005, the U.N estimated the human trafficing industry to be a 32 billion a year industry but many professionals in the anti-traffcing field believe that number is outdated and too low. 

My overall impression of this article is disbelief. I had no idea the act of "modern slavery" was going on in the U.S. It may not be very obvious or a well known fact because it may not be as brutal but I think that it should definetely be stopped.