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Slave to Silence (Modern Day Slavery Song)

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Child sex trafficking in America | Nacole | TEDxRainier

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Human Trafficking: Modern-day Slavery in America

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People believe that child slavery in America ended a long time ago... they were wrong. Child slavery in still happening in America but this time, it's their own citizens who are being enslaved. Many slaves in America are children. They are enslaved because it allows their capturers to make quick easy money. Most capturers of these children are in fact normal people. Most child slavery in America today involves working in the sex industry. To even imagine why these children would do it blows my mind until, I looked further into it. They are tricked and manipulated into doing what their captures tell them to do. Some child slaves don't even know they are slaves. One of the ways a child, particularly female, gets enslaved is by a boy. This boy is around her age and he pretends to have feelings for her. They get into a relationship and start to live together. He tells her to do things (sleep with other men) so they can get money and be able to be together. She does it because she is in love with this boy. This destroys children's emotional and mental well being the most. They are sucked into these lies and twisted into sex slaves for their capturers own desire.

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By Sophie Berg
March 23, 2018
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If we do not take a stand we are allowing millions of the world’s children to be directed towards a life of physical labor and exploitation rather than education, growth and development. We are putting up barriers to the success and growth of future generations of community and family leaders. If we do not start acting now, these children will be left alone, without a voice or someone to care for them

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First, become informed. Once informed you can teach others about the continuing and expanding use of child slavery.

Second, become aware of companies that sell products produced by child labor and encourage others not to buy their products.

Finally, you can also help by supporting the work of local, national, and international organizations like Youth Advocate Program International in the fight to end child slavery worldwide.

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Mentally, what happens to you when you become a child slave?

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Mentally, what happens to you when you become a child slave?

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Most child slaves develop Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome. This is a type of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which is a mental illness where your “fight or flight” fear reaction is damaged. You have a feeling of being in danger a lot of the time or all the time. Sometimes this disease can be passed down to their children. They thought that anxiety “trickled like water from the parent to the child.” Some side effects of Child Slavery are:

1. They become withdrawn

2. They suddenly behaves differently

3. They become anxious, clingy, depressed, aggressive

4. They develop problems sleeping or have nightmares

5. Children might have eating disorders or have changes in their eating habits

6. Might miss school

7. Obsessive behaviour

8. Drugs and/or alcohol

9. Self-harm or thoughts about suicide

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There are many reasons a child could become a slave. The five main reasons are:

1. The family the child is in are poor. They do it for money.

2. This is called Bonded Labour where a child needs to work to pay off their parent’s debt

3. Chattel Slavery is when you are born into slavery.

4. You are very beautiful, easy for your capturer to make a lot of money off of you.

5. Children are more vulnerable, dependent on people, easily manipulated, and less aware of their rights or they are not able to defend them.

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What kind of work does a child slave do?

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What kind of work does a child slave do?

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Children do many things when they are enslaved. They work on plantations or farms. Inside a house they do domestic work in factories, mines, on fishing platforms, on construction sites, in bars, restaurants or tourist sites. They might work in the commercial sex industry, as well as work on the streets as beggars or street sellers. They also used to work as soldiers, but not as much in America anymore.

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Child Slavery is when a child’s labour is used for someone else’s gain.

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Worldwide 10 million children are in slavery, trafficking, debt bondage, as well as other forms of forced labour. Examples are forced recruitment for armed conflict, prostitution, pornography, and other illicit activities.

114 million child labourers are below the age of 14.

72 million children are in hazardous work that directly endangers their health, safety, and moral development.

One of the worst areas for Child Slavery runs along lines running roughly from Seattle to Portland, to San Francisco and Los Angeles, and to Las Vegas.

The most conservative estimates are that at least 100,000 American children are being victimized. Many experts say they believe it's closer to 300,000, even more.

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https://childsworldamerica.org/child-slavery-americas-hidden-crime/

https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/child-slavery/

http://yapi.org/child-labor-and-slavery/

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-abuse-and-neglect/child-trafficking/signs-symptoms-effects/

https://prezi.com/x7nhxy6_o8ti/the-physical-and-psychological-effects-of-slavery-on-the-sla/

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