A crime such as human sex trafficking seldom appears on newspaper headlines, yet is a problem that is ongoing around the world every single day. This problem appears in big cities around the world, but the hustle and bustle of big cities ... 2011, New York Congresswoman, Carolyn Maloney, proposed the Business Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act, which requires companies to disclose any evidence or traces of human trafficking in their supply chains to the Security Exchange Commission or the Internal Revenue Service. Carolyn Maloney claims that human sex trafficking is the 21st century...

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... - to refuse to buy anything made or grown by slave labor. Abolitionism was becoming more than a political campaign, it was a religious crusade. Elijah Lovejoy, a white abolitionist, published an anti-slavery newspaper in Illinois. Angry mobs demolished three of his printing presses, and in 1837, as he tried to protect a fourth press, Lovejoy was killed. Then later on the second Fugitive Slave ... Act in 1850 was passed and it made things even worse, for now respected black citizens- craftsman, publishers, business owners- could be taken from their homes and sent in chains back to the cot...

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