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The Good News - July 2010 Palm Beach Issue
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What’s a life worth?SLAVERY: A look at the rampant issue of human trafficking
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By Marisa Zeppieri-Caruana
THE GOOD NEWS
What comes to mind when you hear the term
“slavery”?...
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What’s a life worth?SLAVERY: A look at the rampant issue of human trafficking
www.
GoodNewsFL.
orgPalm Beach Edition | July 2010 | 9.
1
By Marisa Zeppieri-Caruana
THE GOOD NEWS
What comes to mind when you hear the term
“slavery”? Do you recall history lessons in school of
transatlantic slave trading? Perhaps you think of
images of slavery right here in the United States
consisting of plantation systems, where tobacco and
cotton were grown.
Those days are long behind us,
right?
Wrong.
Slavery is more prevalent today
than any other time in history and
encompasses many different forms,
including sex slavery, labor slavery,
child soldiers and child slavery.
Not
only is slavery and human trafficking
running rampant, both here in the
United States and across the globe,
but the amount of money it brings in to those running
the operations is staggering – upwards of $36 billion
in profit off the sale of human flesh has been made to
date.
In 2007, slave traders made eight times the
amount of
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