---
kind: "unit"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
key: "ptI/ch77"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 77"
heading: "Peonage, Slavery, and Trafficking in Persons"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/ptI-ch77"
sections_count: 19
---

# Chapter 77 — Peonage, Slavery, and Trafficking in Persons

Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Part I — Crimes

## Sections

- [§1581. Peonage; obstructing enforcement](/usc/18/1581.md)
- [§1582. Vessels for slave trade](/usc/18/1582.md)
- [§1583. Enticement into slavery](/usc/18/1583.md)
- [§1584. Sale into involuntary servitude](/usc/18/1584.md)
- [§1585. Seizure, detention, transportation or sale of slaves](/usc/18/1585.md)
- [§1586. Service on vessels in slave trade](/usc/18/1586.md)
- [§1587. Possession of slaves aboard vessel](/usc/18/1587.md)
- [§1588. Transportation of slaves from United States](/usc/18/1588.md)
- [§1589. Forced labor](/usc/18/1589.md)
- [§1590. Trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor](/usc/18/1590.md)
- [§1591. Sex trafficking of children or by force, fraud, or coercion](/usc/18/1591.md)
- [§1592. Unlawful conduct with respect to documents in furtherance of trafficking, peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor](/usc/18/1592.md)
- [§1593. Mandatory restitution](/usc/18/1593.md)
- [§1593A. Benefitting financially from peonage, slavery, and trafficking in persons](/usc/18/1593A.md)
- [§1594. General provisions](/usc/18/1594.md)
- [§1595. Civil remedy](/usc/18/1595.md)
- [§1595A. Civil injunctions](/usc/18/1595A.md)
- [§1596. Additional jurisdiction in certain trafficking offenses](/usc/18/1596.md)
- [§1597. Unlawful conduct with respect to immigration documents](/usc/18/1597.md)