Slave owners even affected the slave's sexual lives from continuous sexual abuse. Sexual abuse from slave owners caused a serious problem for slaves and caused women to feel father apart from men. ... Sexual abuse aimed at slave women caused the slave owners wives to feel jealous and enraged that there husband would pick a slave over them. ... Only the women were subject to the sexual abuse which added to the difficulties they already faced such as strenuous labor and mistreatment. ... Not only was sexual abuse affecting relationships and making race problems worse, it also affected white...

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Throughout Dana's life in present day America, Butler points out current day abuse of domination that can be associated with forms of modern day slavery. Domination became an issue for women were they were pressured into enduring "the threat and the practice of sexual exploitation" (PBS, 4). Women value is set at the bottom of the ladder without any sort of protection from being sexually stalked, harassed, or raped by masters and overseers. In today's society many relationships are compared to Domestic Violence were a spouse or acquaintance threatens and physically abuses. ...

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The sole purpose of human trafficking in most states is of sexual aspects internally and internationally (HumanTrafficking.org). ... Mediators discussed the fact that the reasons for so much human trafficking between genders is because of the rising numbers of women who migrate just to engage in sexual activities away from home. ... One is low education levels, secondly physical and sexual abuse, thirdly people looking etc. ...

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A victim can be subjected to labor exploitation, sexual exploitation, or both" (Greenhaven Press). ... Government regulation will reduce the sexual, physical, and illegal drug abuse from occurring, as well as reducing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases through regular exams and enforcement of safe sex policies. ... Millions of children are exploited each year and case studies show the range of abuse on a global scale. ... Yulia is one of the few "Natashas" (omnipresent East European girls forced into the sex trade) that survived the sexual exploitation that has left ma...

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They cannot complain or leave and experience physical and mental abuse and no wages and poor living conditions (Itoh, 2005). ... The organization End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT-USA)has estimated that over 30,000 children in the United States are at-risk of enslavement (Itoh, 2005). ... Research shows a clear link between desperate circumstances, like abject poverty or domestic abuse, as the most definitive symptom of susceptibility to human trafficking. ... Fueled by abuse, drugs, and constant threats, the woman has little re...

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Jacobs's "knowledge" has to do with "premature knowledge" of sexual harassment because of sexual exploitation of enslaved African-American women, by their white masters. The dilemma of all enslaved women was the conflict between virtuous, womanly ideals and the sexual exploitation mentioned above. ... She describes and stresses the particular ways in which slavery affected women in terms of sexual abuse and constraints on motherhood. ... By demonstrating that it was her master's sexual habits that forced her into "prematurely knowing"(Jacobs 54), Jacobs basically discredits the i...

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These include: commercial sex workers, sex shows, pornography, non-commercial sexual exploitation through marriage. They also note the rise in online sexual exploitation through the use of video-cams and the internet. ... While trafficking of persons has a long history, Australia is still defining laws and policies and financial aid to address abuse of people's rights. ... The crimes listed by the Federal Government are slavery, sexual servitude and deceptive, recruiting, trafficking in persons and debt bondage. ...

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Slave women could not depend on their husbands for protection against whippings or sexual exploitation. ... White stated in his book that it was easier for the spouses to deal marrying abroad due to the fact that they didn't have to watch their spouse being abused, and the husbands didn't witness their wives giving themselves up to the slave owners. ... Back in the slave era female slaves; especially young teen female African Americans were involved in prostitution or sexual encounters with the slave owners, or even some of the slaves. ... For instance in today's society a lo...

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Harriet Jacobs" Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl brought into the public and political arena the sexual oppression of captive, black women. Jacobs" work found its place in history as a "slave narrative" protesting the abuses perpetrated against captive men and women, but it reaches far beyond the boundaries of this genre and stands as an important feminist document. ... Her rational powers and will to action facilitate her efforts to find strategies for dealing with sexual harassment from her master, for maintaining family unity, and in establishing a moral code in harmony with her belief...

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Human Trafficking - A Definition The United Nations defines human trafficking as "the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation." ... Apart from this, the UN further defines the term "exploitation" as "the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual ...

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Health clinics, hospital personnel, sexual assault shelters, social workers, school personnel, and much more places often encounter some kind of victim of sex trafficking in their work force; however, due to lack of education, they are unaware of how to deal with the situation. ... '15, sex abuse and sex trafficking can be taught in Ca. ...

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"More than 15 million Africans were captured and shipped out of their country to be used and abused by colonialists during the slave trade that went on for about 400 years. ... Many were subjected to sexual abuse. ...

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Throughout her life, Jacobs was sexually abused, separated from her children, forced to live in an attic crawl space for seven years, and was constantly pursued by her slave owner even after she ran away to the north. ...

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