What are some differences between slavery in todays world vs. slavery in the U.Ss past?
Sadly people today think slavery ended after the Civil War. It did in the United States, at least it was illegal. There still slavery happening but it will be prosecuted if caught it just isn’t a national institution and most people won’t tolerate it. Up until then slavery was legal. State laws gave “rights” to white land owners to have slaves. This was mostly against African Americans but there were other races that were forced as slaves in America. (Early America didn’t think non-whites were human…man, that is hard to say) Today, many women and young girls are forced into slavery as part of a sex trade. It is awful. (The above was awful too.) During the Civil War it was men and women of all ages. Today’s slaves work in factories, sugar cane, diamond mines, and prostitution. During the Civil War the primary industry was aquaculture. Many modern slaves are targeted by deception. They are promised better jobs, a better way of life, etc. the captors take their documents and make them “
