Slavery in Libya

By BRIANNA ROBLES Staff Writer

As you probably don’t know, there is currently a slave trade happening in Libya where migrants and refugees are being sold for as little as $400 to anyone who will buy. Many of the young men who are being traded in Libya are from surrounding African countries risking their lives trying to reach Europe in hopes of not being caught.

An undercover video caught by CNN reporters surfaced the internet shocking people around the world of the current events taking place in Libya. The video shows auctioners offering up black men and asking people to bid, letting whoever has the highest bid own the man. “Does anybody need a digger? This is a digger, a big strong man, he’ll dig,” said an auctioneer, according to CNN. “What am I bid, what am I bid?”

There are many things wrong with what is going on in Libya right now. For one, why is slavery still a thing in 2017?

Although, I probably shouldn’t be knowing the conditions of the world, I am in complete shock knowing that this is going on in other countries. It is the 21st century and yet there are no laws set in place to prevent things like this from happening. African American men are being sold for how much