Sentence examples for slave traffic from inspiring English sources

It does not acknowledge the moral panic they generated, reminiscent of the panic about white slave traffic which led the U.S. Congress to pass the Mann Act 1910.

Despite those conditions, slave traffic and European immigration increased, and the island's population grew from a few thousand in the mid-17th century to about 18,000 in the 1680s, with slaves accounting for more than half of the total.

The excesses of the Everleigh Club, along with those at its much coarser neighboring brothels in the Levee district of Chicago, would help prompt the Mann Act, meant to prevent "white slave traffic".

One poster issued by the Suffrage Atelier – "The Appeal of Womanhood" – announced: "We want the vote to stop the white slave traffic, sweated labour, and to save the children".

It was 200 years ago this week that a bill to abolish slavery got through its second, decisive reading in Parliament.Ultimately it was the shame and degradation that the slave traffic brought to those involved, perpetrators as well as victims, that proved its undoing.

Its sensational subject — the so-called white slave traffic, in which innocent young women were kidnapped and forced to serve in houses of ill repute — made the movie a gigantic success when it was released and helped to establish the company today known as Universal Pictures.

A powerful three-part Channel 4 series on sex slave trafficking promised more than it delivered.

It would be good if the liberal male media establishment could rethink their denigration of campaigners against sex slave trafficking.

A3 U.S. Report on Slavery The State Department criticized several American allies, including Saudi Arabia, Israel, Greece and South Korea, for not doing enough to stop slave trafficking within their borders.

The idea Britain has only a few is laughable, despite a report in the Guardian by Nick Davies claiming that sex slave trafficking was hugely exaggerated.

A13 U.S. Report on Slave Trade South Korea, Romania and Israel all stepped up efforts to stop slave trafficking within their borders last year, but some of the United States' closest allies, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia and several Persian Gulf states, did not, according to a State Department report.