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When did human trafficking get to be against the law in the US?
GloriaMarbuary
If your question relates to the buying, selling, indentured servitude and/or trading humans, then those activities were abolished with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution following the end of the Civil War.
The 13th Amendment provides:
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. (emphasis added).
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation
All other laws and penalties on interstate human trafficking derive from the passage of the 13th Amendment. Some states have enacted their own anti-trafficking laws to address intrastate incidents of human trafficking.
So, it is reasonable to conclude that human trafficking became illegal in the US upon the passage of the 13th Amendment.
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