Slavery Timeline

I found the time lines to be interesting in seeing the change from the beginnings of slavery to almost recent times. What I noticed was how slavery was a prominent trade that everyone knew about and now in recent times we like to think that slavery does not exist, but really people have just become better at hiding it. As the centuries progressed more laws and declarations were passed to eventually end the idea of slavery. Unfortunately, many countries are still enslaving people. For instance, Natalee Holloway went on vacation to Aruba until she suddenly disappeared. While visiting family in California the paper had an article about a man housing immigrants in a house in the area. Police found that he had enslaved all the immigrants and had them work all day at his restaurant and than drove them home and locked them in the house until the next morning where he picked them up and made them work at the restaurant every single day. He told the people that they had to pay off their debts to him. Unfortunately, the immigrants lacked so much education they did not know what he was doing was completely illegal and wrong. While slavery is nothing like what it used to be we cannot forget that it still exists in places. While rules, laws, and regulations against slavery have been created we must not forget that "rules were meant to be broken" and people will find ways around them. Education is the key in helping people stay better informed of their freedoms and rights.