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INTRO:

Human trafficking is something that happens in every state, including New York. Human trafficking in New York is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, and forced labor as it occurs in the state of New York, and it is widely recognized as a modern-day form of slavery. It includes "the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power, or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs." In 2016, New York State implemented a plan to focus on a few main areas of trafficking, including raising awareness, identifying the victim and providing services, as well as legislative and programmatic advocacy. New York State. “2017 Annual Report .” Criminal Justice, Nov. 2018, www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/pio/humantrafficking/ITF-2017-Annual-Report.pdf. Focusing on these main areas will help educate people and train them on the warning signs and understand how to access a situation where trafficking has occurred. as of June 30th, 2018 there have been 206 reported calls. “New York.” National Human Trafficking Hotline, humantraffickinghotline.org/state/new-york. Making information public for everyone to see gives people a true visual on what is happening right around them. Human trafficking is impacting thousands of people each year and New York is coming up with many ways to crack down on it.

for example, Restore NYC, this group helps victims and educates people all across New York showing people that human trafficking is something that happens right in their own state.

Safe Horizon is a group that provides many services and helps identify the victims. many of their services include safe housing, legal assistance, advocacy, counseling, and assistance with basic needs.

HISTORY:

"Almost every businessman in 18th-century New York had a stake, at one time or another, in the traffic in human beings". In New York, up to 20 percent of the population was enslaved African Americans. The first slave was brought into New York in 1626. Most of the city's local economy came from supplying various ships with the trade of slaves and the goods that they produced. The captains of the boats would buy or sell the slaves along the coast of Africa or even in the local bars of their city. A few of the main items that were produced by slaves were sugar, tobacco, indigo, coffee, chocolate, and cotton. Slaves had also build many well known buildings in New York including the prisons, hospitals, and churches. They had even build the first city hall and the wall from which Wall Street gets its name. Even though slavery was different in New York, it was just as brutal. Slaves were still beaten and humiliated in public by their punishments and threatened by death every day. In 1741, the slaves attempted an insurrection, which failed. In 1799, New York passed a law that would eventually release all slaves. The last legal slave was freed in 1827.

"Article Evaluation"

“Trafficking of Children.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Jan. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafficking_of_children.

Everything I read throughout the article was very relevant to the broad topic of the Trafficking of Children. The only thing that may have been a little distracting was all the facts getting thrown right at you in the beginning of the second paragraph. I felt that it was a lot of information to take in all at once.

The article has lots of information that is all correct but it is a little outdated. Being from 2014.

I Felt the article could have been a little more organized and had some more facts in stead of estimations.

This article is good in a sense that the article is neutral. There are no real claims that are particularly bias towards one side or the other.

I think an under present topic in the article was that they didn't talk about specific countries and if certain countries were more impacted with child trafficking. There could have been more talk about Law enforcements impact on trafficking as well. Something that may have been over presented was all the estimates from external sources. They were very accurate but they didn't make the paper flow as well as it could have.

I checked four of the citations an they all work, with the accurate information. The sources all support the claims made in the article.

Each fact is referenced with an appropriate, reliable source. The sources come from pdf articles, textbooks, and a couple news articles. the pdf articles and textbooks are all neutral, but the news articles I felt were a little bias, but that wasn't noted in the at all.

There is not much conversation on the topic at all but there are a lot of edits.

Wikipedia doesn't spend much time on a specific area of the big topic. In class we go more in depth with the sub topics with give us a better understanding of the topic.