FOREVER A SLAVE In her TED talk, “The Fight Against Slavery”, co-founder of Prajwala and anti-trafficking crusader Sunitha Krishnan uses ethos and logos appeals but she mostly uses pathos in her speech. Sunitha uses pathos through the descriptions of how these women and children are treated, how many of them ended up in this situation, and how they are treated once they get out. Firstly, she talks of the horrific ways in which these people are treated. In one particular instance she speaks of a young girl named Shaheen. Sunitha describes what happened to Shaheen as follows, “Shaheen's background I don't even know. We found her in a railway track, raped by many, many men, I don't know many. But the indications of that on her body was that her intestine was outside her body. And when we took her to the hospital she needed 32 stitches to put back her intestine into her body. We still don't know who her parents are, who she is. All we know is that hundreds of men had used her brutally.” One shutters to think how someone could do this to another human being. Sunitha continues on to tell of the countless others who are brutally victimized through slave trafficking. The ways they end up in these situations are just as horrible. She uses both logos and pathos to describe this. She uses logos to point out how many of these people have no choice as this is there only means of providing for themselves and their families. The worst of it however is that, sadly, many of these women are often sold into sex slavery not by strangers, but by their own family members. One example in Anjali who was sold by her father so he could afford pornography. Sunitha talks of another child named Pranitha, and she said, concerning her, “Pranitha's mother was a woman in prostitution, a prostituted person. She got infected with HIV, and towards the end of her