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Samantha Jo Howell
Professor Rebecca Agosta
UWRT 1101-003
April 20, 2015
Slavery Still Exists
Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking eradication and awareness are things that I
am very passionate about. During the past few years of my life I have had the experience
working with the EndIt Movement, a movement working to end modern day slavery all over the
world. When we were given an assignment to analyze a modern civic text, something about
modern day slavery was the first idea in my mind. I searched through the internet to find the
perfect article to analyze. I came across a post on The Atlantics website, titled Slavery Still
Exists written by Lisa Kristine. You can read the article by clicking here.
The Atlantic is am American news magazine based in Washington DC. Since 1857 the
year the magazine was established the magazine has held a moderate worldview. This means
that it is not a biased source. The magazine has also won more National Magazine Awards than
any other magazine in America. All of this builds credibility as to why we can trust this source,
this is an ethical appeal also known as ethos. Even though every American does not read the
magazine, the magazine is not biased towards any one group of people. Any age could enjoy the
magazine.
The subject of this article is to inform the readers on modern day slavery. Modern day
slavery is exactly what its called. Its slavery in the modern day. Lisa Kristine opened with a
photo (pictured below) she took of slavery that she personally witnessed in Nepal. After the
photo Kristine explained what she saw in Nepal that day. She went on to say These are slaves.

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Deadened by monotony and exhaustion, they worked without speaking, repeating the same task
for 16 hours a day. They took no rest for food or water, no bathroom breaks although their

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dehydration suppressed their need to urinate.

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Kristine told us that she has been working with and studying modern day slavery for
twenty eight years (paragraph 4). Kristine has probably written much more about modern day
slavery than just this simple post, but the purpose behind this post was to inform the public that
slavery still exists. The Atlantic provides the perfect audience for what Kristine has to say. Since
she wants to inform uninformed Americans, a well-known national magazine is the perfect way
for Kristine to reach her audience.
Kristine uses more than one appeal to achieve her purpose in this article. The first
strategy I saw was pathos. I saw this in paragraph one, which began right after the photo shown
above. The first paragraph of this article explains what we see in the photo. Instead of just a
picture of workers, we hear the story of these slaves. We hear about the agony and injustice they
deal with on a daily basis. There are many more photos of those all around the world who have
fallen into modern day slavery. We also see logos in this article. Paragraph six is an example of
one use of logos that we saw. Paragraph six told us how much a slave costs in the modern day, as
compared to historical costs of slaves. It told us that about one hundred and fifty years ago, an
average agricultural slaves would cost around $50,000; now you could purchase a whole family
of slaves for around $18-$20. This fact that Kristine told us supports the other fact that there are
at least 27 million slaves in the world today. Kristine told us one fact and used logos (or logic) to
support that fact with another fact.
In conclusion, Lisa Kristine established her credibility by telling us about her work with
modern day slavery. Then achieved her purpose to inform us about modern day slavery by using
two strategies, pathos and logos.