This interactive map lets you search in your community to find where there have been instances of slavery and human trafficking since 2008. I found it shocking how many instances of trafficking occurred within 1/2 mile radius of Seattle University (see below)! Check out your own neighborhood - what will you find?
From the site:
Welcome to the movement to end slavery.
Slavery thrives in the shadows. An estimated 27 million live in bondage today – yet we know about the plight of so few of them. The battle to end slavery begins by revealing it.
Every captive is a person; every survivor has a story. It's time to show the world that slaves exist among us. Restaurants and fields, construction sites and brothels, suburbs and cities: all are home to victims of trafficking in the United States and abroad. Twenty-seven million slaves in the world, and we want to find them.
SlaveryMap exists to record and display instances of human trafficking across the globe. Whether you find them hidden in your hometown or covered in The New York Times, report the incidents onto this map for people everywhere to see. If you encounter a current situation of bondage, do not enter the information here. Please immediately call the US national trafficking hotline number so that the proper law enforcement and service providers can be alerted: 1-888-3737-888.
Join with your friends, your school, your community and Abolitionists throughout the world. Together, we will finally put a face to this epidemic.
Welcome to the movement.
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