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Supply And Demand Siddharth Kara Summary

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In his essay, Supply and Demand: Human Trafficking in the Global Economy, Siddharth Kara examines how human trafficking has become tightly intertwined with the global economy and ponders how to combat the global issues it creates. Kara begins the article by recalling a time that he was in Nigeria exploring the town of Badagry, where some of the first slave-trading posts for the African American Slave Trade were built in the early

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