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It verges on slavery when children are locked up without proper lighting, food, and healthcare.
For nearly a century after the United States was founded, slavery remained legal; untold numbers of Africans and their descendants suffered in bondage or died horrifying deaths.
Under feudalism and slavery, suzerains and plantation owners grew enormously wealthy from the unremunerated work of serfs and slaves.
The global public is outraged by the group’s violation of fundamental principles and sensibilities: the prohibition of slavery, the protection of personal integrity, the obligation to protect children, and the right of adolescent girls to obtain an education and choose when and whom to marry.
The struggle to liberate animals from oppression is a moral campaign comparable to the struggle to end human slavery.
Likewise, instead of refuting claims about the extent of sexual slavery during the war, Japan's government should build a monument in central Tokyo – possibly even on the Imperial Palace grounds – commemorating the “comfort women" from Korea and elsewhere who were forced to provide sexual services to the Japanese Imperial Army.
Serfdom, indenture, slavery, and the caste system all served this end.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, after more than 200 years of colonialism and slavery, Africa’s population had fallen to 95 million – just 9% of the world total – whereas other continents had experienced a large population increase over the same period.
When slavery was abolished, the terms of partnership with Western colonizers changed from trade in slaves to trade in commodities.
A century and a half after the abolition of slavery, the legacy of that system lingers.
Indeed, were it not for the 400 fathers who petitioned for the rescue of their kidnapped children who had been sold into slavery, Hongdong County would still remain a tourism hot spot for Chinese people seeking their roots.
For slavery is not confined to Hongdong’s brick plants.
Moreover, it recommends that Spain take steps in international forums and organizations to ensure that great apes are protected from maltreatment, slavery, torture, being killed, and being made extinct.
So why have slavery and other forms of bonded labor declined so dramatically in so many places around the world, and what can be done to abolish them completely?
It might be tempting to assume that the decline of slavery is the consequence of human moral progress.
The book addresses the history of slavery and other forms of bondage of indigenous peoples in the Americas, a topic that has received much less attention than African-American enslavement.
As the book shows, Indian slavery in the Americas was outlawed by Charles I of Spain in 1542 and abolished in Peninsular Spain even earlier.
The legislation against Indian slavery was further strengthened during the regency of Mariana of Austria (1665-1675), the mother of Charles II.
But, despite legal prohibitions, slavery proved remarkably resilient, with colonists using subterfuges such as debt peonage, “just wars” (which sanctioned enslavement of captured enemies as a more moral outcome than justified slaughter), and other tricks.
The reason for this resilience is probably best understood not as the consequence of poor law enforcement but of the profitability of slavery, which generated incentives too strong for laws to contain.
The implication is that the dwindling of slavery today and its potential further reduction may depend on market rather than legal incentives.
After the end of the international slave trade in the 1830s, what developed in the Caribbean was not free labor but indentured labor, with East Asians making the journey in exchange for what could be thought of as fixed-term slavery, similar to debt bondage.
Part of the answer may be technological: technologies that require effort that is hard to observe, or that use expensive and fragile equipment, may be inappropriate for slavery.
One fundamental difference between free labor and slavery is that slaves must be bought, meaning that the gains from exploitation do not necessarily accrue to the current slave owner, but are anticipated in the purchase price of the slave.
If the alternative to slavery is starvation or death, people may well choose slavery.
So long as the incentives to enslave persist, the effort to end slavery – by whatever name – will have to continue.
For example, the word kholop, which means “serf,” is returning to the vernacular, a linguistic devolution that parallels a troubling rise in Russia’s modern slavery.
Even Russian officials speak approvingly of modern slavery.
This was the widely accepted approach toward German liability for the Holocaust, and there are many who urge the same approach toward America's responsibility for slavery.
Second is the abolition of slavery in many parts of the world during the nineteenth century, followed by, third, the global loosening over time of other caste constraints – race, ethnicity, gender – which deprived even some people with wealth of the opportunities to use it.
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