ABSTRACT
In the 1990s, Kathleen Barry (1995) estimated that the number of women and children trafficked worldwide for prostitution was approaching the numbers associated with the African slave trade of the 1700s. Approximately 150 years ago, the Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was adopted, banning slavery and involuntary servitude. Nevertheless, according to combined figures from the U.S. Justice, Labor, and State Departments, more than 100,000 people are presently being forced into servitude in the United States. Every year, human traffickers generate billions of dollars in profits by victimizing millions of people worldwide. Human trafficking is considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the world (Polaris Project 2013d).
