Washington Post: Where Modern Day Slavery Lives October 22, 2013 Slavery around the World Thirty million people are trappedĀ in modern slavery, far more than the combined number of slaves who lived and died in the trans-Atlantic slave trade of the 18th and 19th centuries. The Washington Post has written an insightful article onĀ the subject, complete with a map showing the global distribution of the slave population. Slavery in the United States There are 60,000 slaves in the US. Read more by clicking the link below. [button link=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/17/this-map-shows-where-the-worlds-30-million-slaves-live-there-are-60000-in-the-u-s/” newwindow=”yes”] Wash Post: Map Shows Where The World’s 30 Million Slaves Live[/button] CLICK TO ENLARGE MAP