by Lynda Phillips

Created on: May 04, 2010   Last Updated: May 05, 2010

The first time I became aware of modern day slavery was in the 90’s, after watching a movie called ASHANTI, LAND OF NO MERCY. Model Beverly Johnson, and British actor, Michael Cain played the leading roles of a true story of a female African doctor from the Ashanti tribe, who was kidnapped into slavery. Her husband, (Cain’s role) pursued her across 3,000 miles of the African continent to the Red Sea, where she was sold for $20,000 to an Arabian Prince, for his aging father.

After the shame of the movies, I find less than two decades later, the number of men, women, and children in slavery is about 27 million!

On 04/26/2010, DAYSTAR TV aired a special hosted by Pastor Rod Parsley. Guest speaker was Aaron Cohen, author of a book entitled SLAVE HUNTER. He literally tracks and frees slaves around the world.

More information about his efforts to combat human trafficking can be found on his web site of abolishslavery.org. Mr. Cohen told viewers that the slave route generally originates from Sudan, Asia, The Soviet Union/Russia, the United States to Tijuana, Mexico.

Once South of the border, high priced virgins are sold to Lord Kings. En route between Africa and Asia, other virgins are sold to temple priests in Israel for their sexual needs and lusts.

Abuke is a woman from Sudan, enslaved, raped and beaten repeatedly by her slave master for not denouncing Christianity for Islam. Some of her front teeth are missing, and she was forced to bear her master four children; all of which are now also in slavery. Abuke was freed by the efforts of the slave hunter, and Christian organizations, such as Rod Parsley’s .

What can we do if we care? Get involved in legitimate organizations or with individuals that are truly working to salvage some man, woman, boy or girl’s life from sexual brutality and other horrendous physical horrors. This failure of humanity is in our own backyards, here in America, and is seldom, if ever addressed by the news media.

It speaks to the shame of any and every nation that turns a blind eye to the practices of the corrupt among them. Human trafficking is an 8 billion dollar a year industry, yet with all of our satellites, phone tapping, surveillance sophistication, and technologies, we seem to have the facts of the problem, but not solutions.

Apparently, human trafficking is not among the top of any list of any nation to crack down on a practice that began thousands of years ago.

Even slaves have rights, biblically. If blinded or teeth knocked out, or other serious injuries, a slave was to be set free, and or the master punished, and made to pay for his medical expenses. If a slave was a brethren, such as a fellow countryman, or the child of the slave master, they were to be freed in seven years.

Yet few if any nation upholds the things written in the books of Deuteronomy and Leviticus about slavery, second plus wives, and concubines. In fact these are dirty terms now, bigamy, mistresses, children of the plantation but not the master, as they were considered, are seen as ills of society, while sex slavery thrives around the world, and more laws are passed in various states to address the needs and desires of the homosexual and bisexual communities.

The world suffers a lot of sexual perversions that are often justified and moralized. Perhaps we can all look forward to the day when pedophiles and animal lovers have laws on their side that uplifts and upholds their sexual indulgences and practices.

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