You would think it would have ended by now. No. Although the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863 to end slavery, even in 2012 slavery is still occurring in the United States. The Proclamation states: "that all persons held as slaves..are and henceforward shall be free" But sadly, those words were just temporary. President Obama has declared January, 2012 anti-trafficking month, in hopes that it would get the word out about slavery. Many people aren't aware that slavery is still an issue. There are many things that people don't know about slavery. Like the fact that there's 27 million slaves in the world today, or; each year thousands are slaves are traf ficked into the U.S. The average cost of a slave in modern day society is $90. Human trafficking is effecting not just men, but women and children of all ages. Some think there is nothing that we can do to stop slavery, their wrong. As students, if we do our research we can help influence others to join local organizations that work on helping end abolition. If people knew what slavery in the United States consisted of there would be a larger effort by many into making it stop. You can make a difference, one person helping can start a chain reaction.
You would think it would have ended by now. No. Although the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863 to end slavery, even in 2012 slavery is still occurring in the United States. The Proclamation states: "that all persons held as slaves..are and henceforward shall be free" But sadly, those words were just temporary. President Obama has declared January, 2012 anti-trafficking month, in hopes that it would get the word out about slavery. Many people aren't aware that slavery is still an issue. There are many things that people don't know about slavery. Like the fact that there's 27 million slaves in the world today, or; each year thousands are slaves are traf ficked into the U.S. The average cost of a slave in modern day society is $90. Human trafficking is effecting not just men, but women and children of all ages. Some think there is nothing that we can do to stop slavery, their wrong. As students, if we do our research we can help influence others to join local organizations that work on helping end abolition. If people knew what slavery in the United States consisted of there would be a larger effort by many into making it stop. You can make a difference, one person helping can start a chain reaction.
