Forced labour _is_ slavery, by definition. If your rights are taken away and you are forced to work, you are a slave. The US 13th amendment says, > either sla

Forced labour _is_ slavery, by definition. If your rights are taken away and you are forced to work, you are a slave. The US 13th amendment says, > either slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. "Except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted". Ie, you're in prison, and required to labour. It's slavery. It's right there in that US consitutional amendment. There are different types of slavery. You may be thinking of chattel slaves, where a person is owned. A prisoner is not owned. That does not mean that someone who is not owned by another human, yet who is forced to labour, is not a slave: it's called de facto slavery or state imposed forced labour slavery. See https://www.antislavery.org/what-we-do/state-imposed-forced-labour/ https://www.antislavery.org/what-we-do/state-imposed-forced-...