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“The U.S. State Department has estimated that between 600,000 and 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year, 80% of them women and girls, mostly for sexual exploitation. As the U.S. State Department notes, its estimate doesn’t include ‘millions of victims around the world who are trafficked within their own national borders.’
In contrast, in the peak decade of the transatlantic slave trade, the 1780’s, an average of just under 80,000 slaves were shipped annually across the Atlantic from Africa to the New World. The average then dropped to a bit more than 50,000 between 1811 and 1850. In other words, far more women and girls are shipped into brothels each year in the early 21st century than African slaves were shipped into slave plantations each year in the 18th or 19th centuries-although the overall population was of course far smaller then.
As the journal Foreign Affairs observed: ‘Whatever the exact number is, it seems almost certain that the modern global slave trade is larger in absolute terms than the Atlantic slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries was.’”
-“Half the Sky” by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
