“The journey from Nigeria to Algeria took us a week, and 25 people were crammed in the truck. En route, we saw many corpses, as well as people just wandering about in the desert waiting to die. Apparently, some truck drivers heartlessly abandon passengers along the way.”

“There [in morocco] I gave birth to my baby daughter. I had to hide from traffickers who abduct migrant women and force them into prostitution.”

The above account comes from the February 2013 issue of Awake!, a religious pamphlet. It is included here to point out that as long as those conditions conducive to slavery exist, that their will remain a thriving slavery market. These conditions are either state-sanctioned economics or in the “black market” created by state-prohibited activities. In 2013 a Saudi national was discovered living in suburban California with a handful of slaves at her service, one of which [a Kenyan girl] escaped and alerted local police.

Currently the most sought after slaves are Eastern European women used in the sex trade from the Middle East to Manhattan. Any American man who has registered on an internet dating service has very likely been contacted by the handlers of such slave-prostitutes posing as a visiting woman looking for a “date” while in town. As of 2016 there is one upscale hotel at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor that houses about a dozen Eastern European sex slaves and their goon pimps, this in a nation where slavery is explicitly prohibited. Imagine how widespread slavery was in a society where parents were encouraged by custom and law to sell their children to “masters?”