Note that the operative term here is "modern", which makes modern slavery a far more expansive phrase than chattel slavery as practiced in the Americas. Only a

Note that the operative term here is "modern", which makes modern slavery a far more expansive phrase than chattel slavery as practiced in the Americas. Only a fraction of these 27 million "slaves" could be fairly characterized as chattel slaves.[1] Most of them are seasonal workers who end up laboring under extreme conditions due to extreme poverty, in turn often a consequence of domestic or regional ethnic group dynamics. I find it problematic to compare their experience to that of chattel slavery. It's an injustice to those who experienced chattel slavery, as well as an injustice to the experience of these so-called modern slaves today. There's nothing constructive that can be gained by such equivocations. If the modern reality isn't abhorrent enough (and I wouldn't even try to compare degrees of abhorrence), I don't see how it will move people to do anything but pontificate. Without any substantive relationships, the history of the former cannot be used to address the latter--which is actually a diverse array of situations. And if the history of "white slavery" is at all instructive, I can easily see people using such equivocations in a manner that further harms the abused and exploited.[2] [1] See J. O. Davidson, Modern Slavery, ch 3 (Slavery and Wage Labour: Freedom and Its Doubles), https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2F9781137297297_3.pdf https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2F978113729729... [2] A quick Google search suggests one tactic is using "slavery" as a pretense to detain and eject migrant laborers.