Human trafficking in Virginia

Human trafficking in Virginia is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, or forced labor as it occurs in the state of Virginia, and it is widely recognized as a modern-day form of slavery.

[3] African workers first appeared in Virginia in 1619, brought by English privateers from a Spanish slave ship they had intercepted.

Some laws regarding slavery of Africans were passed in the seventeenth century and codified into Virginia's first slave code in 1705.

Exact numbers are difficult to obtain since human trafficking is illegal in Virginia.

From December 2007 to June 2015, they received 2,803 calls on human trafficking in Virginia, which resulted in 628 cases.