1. Slavery Is slavery a concern in our world today?
If no, when did it end?
If yes, what are some current examples?

2. The FBI estimates the slave trade generates nearly $32 billion in revenue each year.
It is estimated that 27 million slaves exist in the world today.
That’s more than twice as many slaves as there were at the height of the Atlantic slave trade in the nineteenth century.

3. Human Trafficking
A criminal activity in which people are recruited, harbored, transported, bought, or kidnapped to serve an exploitative purpose, such as sexual slavery, forced labor, or child soldiery.

4. The TVPA is the main US law on human trafficking
The TVPA is the main US law on human trafficking. It defines “severe forms of trafficking” as:
1) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age.
2) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

5. Define these terms
Coercion
Compulsion
Constraint
Restraint

6. Coercion refers to behaviors including:
Threats of harm or physical restraint
Trying to get a person to believe that if they don’t do something, it will result in serious harm or physical restraint of themselves or someone else
The abuse (or threatened abuse) of law or the legal process
Coercion = Using threats to control someone

7. Fraud refers to intentionally distorting the truth in order to get someone else (who relies on that version of the truth) to surrender a legal right or give up something valuable that belongs to them. Fraud = Using lies to control someone

8. Write a short, first person, fictional essay from the point of view of a trafficking victim. Students should explain in the essay how they were first tricked, recruited, or forced into trafficking by the trafficker