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The first cargo of African slaves arrived in the colony of Virginia.
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Massachusetts becomes the first state to ban slavery.
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U,S. passes laws outlawing slave trade, but not slavery itself.
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Negotiation between U.S and Britain to end Atlantic Slave Trade.
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Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in the Confederate states.
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The 13th Amendment abolishes slavery in the United States.
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Representative Mann introduced the act at the request of Chicago prosecuters, that claimed that girls and women were being forced into prostitution by pimps.
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The Suppression of White Slave Traffic was changed to "traffic in women and children" due to the fact that victims were of different ages, genders, and race.
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India initiated the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, which persecuted third parties involved in trafficking. It's goal was to help control and prevent human trafficking but it needed to be reformed.
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The United Nations held the fourth World Conference in Beijing, China to address the issue of women being vitims of human trafficking. Major actions were developed to help the issue, such as enforcing international conventions on trafficking and human slavery.
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La Strada International (LSI) was founded. It is a European NGO network against human trafficking.
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President Clinton assigned The Trafficking Victim Protection Act (TVPA), the first act that addresses human trafficking, which was passed by Congress on October 28, 2000. The act was created to protecting, prosecuting and preventing.
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The first human trafficking criminal staute was enacted by the state of Washington. The majority has passed state legislation, making trafficking a felony.
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Polaris Project is the biggest organization fighting against human trafficking and a nation wide human trafficking hotline. It was founded by Derek Ellerman and Katherine Chonand.
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President Obama declared January to be Human Trafficking Awareness Month (HTA).
