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Human trafficking in New York is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, and forced labor as it occurs in the state of New York, and it is widely recognized as a modern-day form of slavery. It includes “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power, or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.”
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According to the 2011 Department of State report, New York, together with California, Texas, and Oklahoma, has the largest concentrations of survivors of human trafficking. The National Human Trafficking Resource Center reported receiving 924 calls and emails in 2015 about human trafficking in New York.
History of slavery
The first slave was brought into New York in 1626. In 1741, the slaves attempted an insurrection, which failed. In 1799, New York passed a law that would eventually release all slaves. The last legal slave was freed in 1827.
Demographics
Exact numbers are difficult to obtain since human trafficking is illegal in New York. However, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center keeps statistics on the number of calls to their hotline and the number of cases. From December 2007 to June 2015, they received 4,121 calls on human trafficking in New York, which resulted in 1,104 cases. The most common type of trafficking was sex trafficking, and domestic work.