Female Slavery is Still Alive
© Moira Richards
Do you remember slavery? Traders from powerful western countries would go buy men and women from weaker countries and ship them back home. There, the traders would sell all these people to new owners. A nasty inhumane and exploitative practice that was outlawed by all civilized countries decades ago ......... ?
Thousands, some say millions, of women are sold into slavery each year. This is big business and there is a lot of money to be made, and a lot of bargains to be found. But of course, the money is made by the slave traders (or traffickers, as they are called), the bargains are got by the buyers, and not much of either goes to the women who are the commodity.
As in days of yore, it is women in impoverished and powerless circumstances who are enslaved. As in days of yore, it is people in rich, powerful and civilized Western countries who are happy to become slave owners.
How do women become entrapped into this form of abuse? There are many different ways including, but not limited to the following;
She might find that her travel and identification documents are seized by an 'owner' who then forces her into prostitution, pornography or crime, instead of the waitressing or hairdressing job she had expected.
Escape for a woman in this kind of situation becomes almost impossible. She can't speak the language, she has no papers, she may be raped, beaten or drugged to ensure her obedience. If she does manage to get to the police, she may well be deported back to her home country and into the hands, once again, of the people who captured her in the first place.
Thousands, some say millions, of women are sold into slavery each year. This is big business and there is a lot of money to be made, and a lot of bargains to be found. But of course, the money is made by the slave traders (or traffickers, as they are called), the bargains are got by the buyers, and not much of either goes to the women who are the commodity.
As in days of yore, it is women in impoverished and powerless circumstances who are enslaved. As in days of yore, it is people in rich, powerful and civilized Western countries who are happy to become slave owners.
How do women become entrapped into this form of abuse? There are many different ways including, but not limited to the following;
- She may be imported into a country as a so-called 'mail-order' bride
- She may be sold by her family to a trafficker
- She may be tricked by a trafficker into thinking she is about to start a great new job in some country of opportunity
- She may just be kidnapped and sold when such a woman reaches the strange new country
She might find that her travel and identification documents are seized by an 'owner' who then forces her into prostitution, pornography or crime, instead of the waitressing or hairdressing job she had expected.
Escape for a woman in this kind of situation becomes almost impossible. She can't speak the language, she has no papers, she may be raped, beaten or drugged to ensure her obedience. If she does manage to get to the police, she may well be deported back to her home country and into the hands, once again, of the people who captured her in the first place.
Go To Page: 1 2
The copyright of the article Female Slavery is Still Alive in Abuse Against Women is owned by Moira Richards. Permission to republish Female Slavery is Still Alive in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
| Here's the follow-up discussion on this article: | View all related messages |
For a complete listing of article comments, questions, and other discussions related to Moira Richards's Abuse Against Women topic, please visit the Discussions page.