Slavery in the Unite States was declared immoral and in 1865 the U.S. government created and drafted the 13th Amendment which freed existing slaves and made slavery illegal in the United States. Slavery which was abolished 143 years ago is however still in existence and is affecting the personal lives and health of people all over the world. However, unlike the state-sanctioned, race-based crime of the past, modern-day slavery is largely an illegal, global phenomenon, fueled primarily by commercial gain. Modern day slavery like earlier forms is a huge world wide business. Human trafficking alone is an estimated at $9 billion dollar profit for those involved each year. Modern day slavery is not just a problem in the United States, Africa, Asia, Europe it is and has affected the whole world not just a section of it. Modern day slavery takes many forms: there is domestic servitude slavery, there is factory and farm slavery, there is child soldier slavery, and there is sex slavery, which is probably the largest category. In the U.S. and other areas of the world the people being enslaved are the immigrants illegal or legal who are smuggled into the country by promises and hopes of a better life. That closely links modern day slavery with Human trafficking, which brings in and ships the enslaved all over the U.S. "Approximately 600,000 to 800,000 victims annually are trafficked across international borders worldwide, and between 14,500 and 17,500 of those victims are trafficked into the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of State". The enslaved are not always like said above always illegally brought into the U.S., but are kept or held illegally once they arrive. Like in the case of Francesca Ekka, a 23-year old woman from Bombay, India, who was brought into the United States on a tourist visa by a wealthy Indian couple who wanted her to be their nanny and housekeeper. She ended up working 18-hour days seven days a week, wasn't paid, was forced to sleep outside with the family's dot, wasn't given enough to eat, and suffered beating and burnings. This is but one example of, and only one form of the slavery that still exist here in the U.S., and this is not an isolated case there are hundreds of personal stories found at http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/USA.htm.