{"id":1915,"date":"2010-03-24T06:47:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2010-03-24T06:47:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:47:36","slug":"slavery-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2010\/slavery-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavery USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8220;Land of the Free&#8221; and the home of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\">Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution<\/a>?!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the International Justice Mission, human trafficking is the third most-profitable criminal activity in the world after drugs and weapons. Seldom do people stop to notice the implications of that statistic for the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The number of trafficked victims in the U.S. is rising quickly. Ten years ago, there were approximately 50,000 slaves in the U.S. Now there are over 300,000. Modern day abolitionist and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship evangelist York Moore says people know about the issue, but few see it as a real problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s most concerning to me is not the proliferation of the persons involved or the profitability of this illegal enterprise,&#8221; says Moore, &#8220;but specifically the increasing tolerance that I think I&#8217;m seeing in people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Source:<\/i> <a href='http:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/article\/14019'>Mission Network News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/price-of-life.jpg\" width=60 height=41 alt=\"The Price of Life\" title=\"Price of Life: no more slavery or commercialization of people!\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8220;Land of the Free&#8221; and the home of Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution?! According to the International Justice Mission, human trafficking is the third most-profitable criminal activity in the world after drugs and weapons. Seldom do people stop to notice the implications of that statistic for the United States. The number of trafficked &#8230; <a title=\"Slavery USA\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2010\/slavery-usa\/\" aria-label=\"More on Slavery USA\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[807],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat","tag-slavery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-uT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}