Slavery in the Land
write a researched persuasive argumentative Essay.
Essay Question: As Soodalter and Bales explain in their essay “Slavery in the Land”, modern day slavery is as common as homicide in the U.S but one wouldn’t know it from the lack of media coverage. In a structured essay address the following concerns: develop an argument explaining why the authorities and the media don’t treat it as an urgent civil right or public safety issue. Examine why authorities who are aware of the issue choose to purposefully cover it up. Do you think the race of those enslaved affects America’s interest in alerting the American public to the problem of freeing the slaves? To what extent do you agree with the writers’ position that migrant and foreign laborers are “taking Americans’ jobs” is a myth?
•I would like you to use the text as your primary source but this question might lead you to research who are the new masters and slaves, what is being done to address the problem of American and global slavery, job descriptions of migrant workers, wage descriptions and comparisons of migrant workers and other slaves and the working conditions of human traffickers.
