Modern slavery is an "abhorrent crime" and tackling it is a "personal priority", the Home Secretary has said.
Speaking after the discovery of three women allegedly held as slaves for more than 30 years, Theresa May said many victims are "hidden in plain sight".
She said that although details were still emerging as police continue their investigations in Brixton, south London, "one positive" of the case was that more people were aware of slavery.
Three women were allegedly held as slaves in Brixton for more than 30 years Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Mrs May said: "It is all around us, hidden in plain sight.
"It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermarkets, working in fields, factories or nail bars, trapped in brothels or cowering behind the curtains in an ordinary street.
"Something most of us thought consigned to history books, belonging to a different century, is a shameful and shocking presence in modern Britain."
Police stand outside the block of flats where the women were allegedly held Mrs May said the new modern slavery bill, which will increase the maximum sentence for trafficking offences to life imprisonment and create the role of anti-slavery commissioner, will be "the first of its kind in Europe".
"The first step to eradicating the scourge of modern slavery is acknowledging and confronting its existence," she said.
"The second is accepting it is the responsibility of us all to abolish it once and for all."
Police spoke to people living in Peckford Place as part of their inquiries Police have carried out door-to-door inquiries in Peckford Place, where three women - a 69-year-old from Malaysia, a 57-year-old from Ireland and a 30-year-old Briton - were taken from a property last month after calling a support charity asking for help.
Officers believe the British woman has lived her entire life in servitude.
Police said the alleged victims, two of whom lived in a "collective" with a 67-year-old man they met through a "shared political ideology", had suffered "emotional and physical abuse".
The man and a woman, also 67, who came to the UK in the 1960s and are of Indian and Tanzanian origin, were arrested and released on bail.
Frank Field, the MP for Birkenhead and chairman of the modern slavery bill review, said: "The case we had last week was not only horrendous for the length of time those women were enslaved, it was the first example ... that we know of of a person being born into slavery in this country.
"To me, that was even more shocking than the 30 years of slavery, as shocking as that was."
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