Human Goods

When Americans think of slavery, they probably think first of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade that abducted millions of Africans and enslaved them in the Americas.

Almost all of us know how hideous the journey was. The history is notorious.

The Trans-Atlantic slave trade looked like this:

But fewer people can visualize the modern-day global slave trade. It is difficult to track the way international organized crime networks distribute their goods from the poorest countries to slightly less poor countries. From moderately poor countries to rich ones.

Traffickers move the downtrodden to the marketplace so consumers have access to the goods they want to purchase.

Today’s global slave trade looks like this:

And that’s just a Southeast Asia focus.

Free the Slaves and National Geographic have interactive world maps that let users click on different countries to explore their relationships with modern-day slavery.

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