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The economy of treating a person as a tool with a pulse.
means The system of owning human beings as property and forcing their labor without consent or pay.
from From 'slave,' which traces back through Old French and Medieval Latin 'sclavus' to 'Slav' — because medieval Slavic peoples were so widely captured and sold in European slave markets that their very name curdled into the generic word for 'captive person.' A grim linguistic fossil: an entire ethnic name worn down into a condition.
- still legal clause
- US 13th Amendment exempts prisoners from the ban.
- global scale now
- Over 50 million people trafficked or forced-laboring today.
- abolition was recent
- Mauritania criminalized it last, in 2007.
- word reused
- Slavs enslaved so often their name became bondage itself.