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  • The Dutch West India Company introduced slavery in 1625 with the importation of eleven enslaved blacks who worked as farmers, fur traders, and builders to New Amsterdam, present day New York City.

    The Dutch West India Company introduced slavery in 1625 with the importation of eleven enslaved blacks who worked as farmers, fur traders, and builders to New Amsterdam, present day New York City.
    The start of slavery
  • John Casor, filed what later became known as a freedom suit, which lead him to become the first legal slave,

    John Casor, filed what later became known as a freedom suit,  which lead him to become the first legal slave,
    John Casor was the first legal slave
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
  • The International Agreement for the suppression of "White Slave Traffic" was signed and put into action.

    The International Agreement for the suppression of "White Slave Traffic" was signed and put into action.
  • The League of nations was founded after WWI, and had the goal maintaining world peace and also focusing on human trafficking

    The League of nations was founded after WWI, and had the goal maintaining world peace and also focusing on human trafficking
  • During WWII, Japan had set up a horrifying outrageous system where woman all across Asia were forced into sexual slavery

     During WWII, Japan had set up a horrifying outrageous system where woman all across Asia were forced into sexual slavery
  • Immoral Traffic Prevention Act, which persectes the third parties involved in trafficking

  • A case emerged whereseveral migrants were found to be ilegally smuggled into Thailand by traffickers. 57 of these migrants suffocated to death while being transported

  • President Obama declared January to be Human Trafficking Awareness month.

    President Obama declared January to be Human Trafficking Awareness month.