by Janice Shaw Crouse

About the author: Janice Shaw Crouse is a member of the Coalition Against Sexual Trafficking of Women and Children based in Washington, D.C.

In colonial times, slave traders abducted men, women and children from Africa and brought them to the new world—often in ball and chain—for a life of slavery on plantations. Centuries later, that dark practice still spawns painful emotions.

In today’s post-modern age of technological progress and moral decay, the tentacles of sexual slavery have spread around the globe. The U.S. estimate of 1 million victims worldwide is considered low. They consist of children and young, naive women who have been lured, coerced, kidnapped or trapped into 21st century slavery: the evil that is sexual trafficking.

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