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A comment on Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017). Parent comment

Re:Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017) by indigochill on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:32AM (#31058961)
> I, for one, am glad that such barbaric practice has been more or less abolished.

Well, yes and no. Human trafficking is still big business even in the states (worldwide, the State Department estimates 24.9 million trafficked persons at any given time - domestically, there were for example over 1,500 reported cases in California in 2019). It's just underground now.

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Re:Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017) by CryptoPunk on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:51AM (#31059512)
Is human trafficking strictly slavery/coercive, or does it lump in all smuggling of sex workers, irrespective of the presence of consent/willingness?
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Re:Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017) by zdragnar on Sunday April 17, 2022 @03:21PM (#31063495)
Slavery is alive and well in the world today, and is not simply limited to sex trafficking.

According to https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/resource/human-trafficking-.... Only about 20% are sexually exploited, with the majority used for labor.

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