Other activists give estimates that run as high as 200 million. Under the old slavery, one person legally owned another. Today slavery is illegal everywhere. When people buy slaves, what they get is control, and they use violence to maintain that control. The new slavery is a booming business, and the number of slaves is increasing.
People get rich by using slaves.
And when they are finished with them, they just throw them away. This new slavery focuses on big profits and cheap lives. People become completely disposable tools for making money. Slaves are all around us. Bales reports instances of young girls forced to be prostitutes in cities in England, others held captive as domestic servants in London and Paris.