University of Washington freshman Whitney Hahn recently organized a benefit concert called “A Red-Light to Slavery” to end human trafficking in the U.S. Whitney was inspired to organize the event when she learned in her sociology class that 14,500 slaves currently live in the U.S. According to Free the Slaves, a nonprofit organization dedicated to abolishing modern-day slavery, slaves can be found in 90 cities across the U.S, and most are associated with the agricultural industries, domestic services, commercial sex, and manufacturing trades.

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