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Please don't refer to this practice as 'semi-slavery'. It is slavery. If you are held against your will and made work, it is slavery (and is in fact defined by

by pbiggar 15y ago

Please don't refer to this practice as 'semi-slavery'. It is slavery. If you are held against your will and made work, it is slavery (and is in fact defined by the UN as such, as I recall).

edwinnathaniel 15y ago
The reason why I chose the word "semi" was because of a few things: 1) It's not an official form of slavery on paper as in they got bought in exchange of money, but more as a "helper of the house" originally. 2) The said maid does have option: cut ties or report to the police, but they were normally under pressure not to do so (psychologically) But I won't argue/debate that it is definitely slavery.