Human trafficking in New York
The plan included raising awareness, helping to identify the victim, providing better services, and legislative and programmatic advocacy.
[2] The purpose was to educate people, train them to identify warning signs and understand how to assess a situation where trafficking has occurred.
[citation needed] Most of the city's local economy came from supplying various ships with the trade of slaves and the goods that they produced.
A few of the main items that were produced by slaves were sugar, tobacco, indigo, coffee, chocolate, and cotton.
[citation needed] In the State of New York, there are several historical murals and monuments that depict slavery and human trafficking.
Some murals have been hidden away or destroyed over time but there were many over the years that have survived and made public or national monuments.
In 2011, the Department of State reported that New York, together with California, Texas, and Oklahoma, had the largest concentrations of survivors of human trafficking.
[10] The chart above shows the gender, age, and citizenship status of all the known and documented cases of human trafficking within New York State in 2018.
[12] Examples of legal cases involving, slavery and/or human trafficking in the state of New York include:
