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From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.
The shores of Tripoli refers to an expeditionary assault on the Sallee Rovers of the Barbary Coast.
A young United States refused to pay tribute to the Barbary Pirates for safe transit through the Straits of Gibraltar. It was the custom of the pirates of the Barbary Coast to take ships, steal the cargo, and require ransom for crew, officers, and passengers. If the ransom was not paid; the people were sold.
Now, if the crew members converted to Islam and joined pirate crews; they would be free of slavery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
The problem of Christian shipping and Barbary Pirates was an old issue when the young U.S. got into the act in the early 1800s. One of the most famous of the Barbary Pirates, a Dutchman named Jan Janazoon, converted to Islam and rose to rule a pirate empire centuries earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Janszoon
Traditionally, the term "white slavery" was the Ottoman Turk habit of selling captives, mostly done with white christian Europeans, into slavery.
Since the beginning of the 20 century; the term has come to refer to sex traffic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_slavery
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White Slave Traffic
Main article: International Agreement for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic
The International Agreement for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic is a series of anti–human trafficking treaties, the first of which was first negotiated in Paris in 1904. It was one of the first multilateral treaties to address issues of slavery and human trafficking. The Slavery, Servitude, Forced Labour and Similar Institutions and Practices Convention of 1926 and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full Age of 1933 are similar documents.
White Slave Traffic Act of 1910
Main article: Mann Act
To battle sex trafficking in the United States, in 1910 the US Congress passed the White Slave Traffic Act (better known as the Mann Act), which made it a felony to transport women across state borders for the purpose of "prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose". Its primary stated intent was to address prostitution, immorality, and human trafficking, particularly sexual trafficking. As more women were being trafficked from foreign countries, the US began passing immigration acts to curtail aliens from entering the country. Several acts such as the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924 were passed to prevent emigrants from Europe and Asia from entering the United States. Following the banning of immigrants during the 1920s, human trafficking was not considered a major issue until the 1990s.[29][30]
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I've heard but don't have proper citations for a theory that sex trafficking in the U.S. had an upsurge in the 1990s due to immigration from the Balkan states where there had been decades of trafficking of women of the wrong religion. During the Balkan conflict, I do remember several reports of Christians trafficking Muslim women and Muslims trafficking Christian women. More likely it was a criminal element trafficking anyone they could make money off of.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/balkan-countries-shows-mixed-progress-in-fighting-against-human-trafficking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Europe
All in all, human trafficking is an issue Americans know little of and care less. At least until they have a young relative blackmailed into prostitution. re: Backpage.com
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