BettaPonic wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
Yep....slavery was the norm THEN.
Of course, Africans sold each other. So did Asians. So did Europeans. So did people in the Americas. Etc....Ad Nauseum.
It is not now. We're in the 21st Century.
You would hope that human beings have advanced from the point where they consider other persons "property."
Slavery is actually pretty common in some countries. Haiti has slavery to an extent that it is pretty easy to buy slaves. In the Congo pygmies are enslaved by the Bantu. In South America people are forced to make charcoal. In Indonesia people are forced to fish. In China the government will arrest people without cause and make them work in labor camps.
A rose by another name.
But even here in America, some wealthy nair-do-wells hire immigrants, and force them to work without pay, either taking their green cards, or if illegal, threaten to report them to the authorities if said immigrant workers won't cooperate and be good slaves. Then there's the whole prostitution thing in industrialized countries, where women and girls, often from the third world, are forced to work as prostitutes without pay.
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14 Feb 2017, 5:31 pm
