Article analysis on modern day slavery

Article Title: About Slavery: Modern Slavery        

Keywords/definitions There may be some words that are new or need defining.  Use this area to record, and in your own words explain what they mean. Investments Funding, giving money Liberation: To free, and give protection such as money, healthcare to start a new life.	Source Reliability ·      Who wrote this article? ·      Who is their audience? ·      Is this a reliable source?  Why or why not? A writer for free the slaves.com Their audience is anyone who is interested in knowing and preventing slavery This is a reliable source, as they are interested in preventing slavery, so obviously they would not put anything untruthful about slavery
	5 key statements statements that you think are interesting or important. ü  our conservative estimate is that there are 27 million people in slavery today. This means that there are more people in slavery today than at any other time in human history. ü  Slaves today are cheaper than they have ever been. Since they are so cheap, slaves are today are not considered a major investment worth maintaining. ü  An average slave in the American South in 1850 cost the equivalent of $40,000 in today’s money; today a slave costs an average of $90. ü  slavery feeds directly into the global economy, it makes sense that we would be concerned by the ways in which slavery flows into our homes through the products we buy and the investments we make ü  Slavery happens in nearly every country in the world, and the US and Europe are not immune.
	What ‘perspectives’ would this support? Personal        National        Global         Future This articles talks on a global perspective, as they mentioned slave trade and it’s affects in countries round the world like Africa, India etc.
My Summary of the article This article was talking about the slave trade in the world today. A slave is someone who is forced to work with little or no pay under the threat of violence Today there are more slaves in the world compared to past human history. This is mainly because of three reasons, the population boom, lack of security during events like civil wars, natural disasters and corrupt governments. This three factors makes people slaves. This organization wishes to spot slavery in it’s tracks by performing liberation, which is to free a slave but not buying him off the slaveholder then they will provide services like education, healthcare etc. to make sure they do not walk down the path of slavery again