slavery. As stated in Colonel Sandra L. Keefer’s research, in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and the United States Congress passed the 13th amendment, which states neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States, yet over the past decade, trafficking in human beings has reached epidemic proportions. No country is immune, including the United States. “The U. S. State Department’s 2005 Report on Human Trafficking estimates that between 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked…
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