Slavery began in the mid-1400s when the Columbian Exchange began. Europeans brought Africans to the Americas and slavery began. Today's human trafficking evolved from slavery. In slavery, owners used slaves for forced labor and occasionally for sexual pleasure. According to Rocket swag.com, white slavery also began in the 1800s and targeted women and children to be sold to wealthy owners. They used them for sex and eventually made them work. In 1863, the Americas attempted to end slavery. No one really knows when human trafficking began. The rocket swag also provides history from the 1700s, when children were forced to work. There is no exact year that human trafficking emerged from the state of slavery, but I believe that slavery gave people the idea to develop human trafficking. Human trafficking is modern slavery. On the ijm.org website, I noted that human trafficking is now the second largest crime industry in the world. The trade in rape profits thrived around the time human trafficking began. In some countries, if women, children or men try to escape from the owner or brothel, depending on how rich the owner is, they have security so that people new to human trafficking do not escape. Then, if they were to escape, part of the police force would work for the owners. Sometimes law enforcement officials are bribed to return women and children to brothels. Once some people get into prostitution, it is difficult for them to get out unless they no longer want the prostitute. In Cambodia, the main causes and reasons why human trafficking is so big is due to the poverty of the country. According to humantrafficking.org, the causes of human trafficking are: poverty, soc...... middle of paper...... is trying to prevent human trafficking by raising awareness and has spoken to more than twenty thousand students to keep them safe. Human trafficking has existed for decades and will not end anytime soon. As time goes by, I have the feeling that if everyone was aware of this terrible crime, not many women and children would be vulnerable to human trafficking. Work Cited Humantrafficking.org page. Thriving child prostitution industry in Cambodia. 21 January 2014Buth Reakksmey Kongkea", Brides saved from the 'trafficked'" havoscope.com16 December 2013 web. 28 January 2014“What happens to victims of human trafficking”? Rocketswag.com/legal/criminal-lawyer/trafficking. 2012. web 6 February 2014 “Information sheet”, ijm.org/sites/default/files/resources/ information sheet - sex trafficking. pdf, 2012.web 10 February 2014