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"Modern day slavery" is mincing words, slavery in the modern day is just slavery. Typically slavery refers to the slave being considered property, and ownership
by greggturkington 6y ago
"Modern day slavery" is mincing words, slavery in the modern day is just slavery. Typically slavery refers to the slave being considered property, and ownership transferring to offspring. You can compare it to forced labor.
- flatline 6y agoI agree, though chattel slavery typically implies the slavery of offspring. You can still have institutionalized slavery without that, like the Romans and a lot of other cultures throughout history. Slaves could be set free, could have semi-decent standards of living, while still being dehumanized. Or they could be treated brutally and enslaved for generations. The term seems to fit here in the broadest sense of the word.
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- La1n 6y agoNot all slavery is chattel slavery.
- greggturkington 6y agoA good example of another type being forced labor via debt bondage.
- jeromenerf 6y ago"Slavery" etymology takes its roots with the "Slavs" people, who were, well, enslaved in medieval times. The term has been commonly accepted to describe various similar patterns before and after those times. I agree that yesterday or today slavery is just slavery, whatever subtile differences there might be.