Slavery did not stop after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. It still goes on today and there are several forms. It affects men, women, and children. In eastern Europe, women are sold as sex slaves, children are sold between west African countries, and men are forced to be slaves on Brazilian estates.
Bonded labor occurs when people are tricked into getting a small loan and then are forced to repay it by working seven days a week for a whole year. They receive their basic needs to survive as "payment" but several people can never pay off the loan so it keeps going through the generations of their family until they can pay it off. Another type is forced marriage which forced girls and women into marriage that is usually characterized by abuse. Forced labor is when a person/group of people is forced to work by beng illegally recruited by being threatened. Slavery by descent is when people are born into a slave family or a slave caste. Trafficking is a slavery form that is the trading of people to use them for slavery in another area. And last but not least is child labor, which is the practice of employing children in work that is harmful to their health.
http://www.antislavery.org/homepage/antislavery/modern.htm
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