Are there any countries in the world where slavery is still legal?
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I know that slavery is still practiced in Sudan, although I don't know if it's officially legal
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Umm, how about a Black History book?  Try "From Slavery to Freedom" by John Hope Franklin.  Another great historian who covered the topic is John Henrik Clarke.\n\nVery quickly, there was not very much disparity in the way non-free persons were treated.  I don't know why you think there was.  The european slave trade was the most brutal form of slavery the world has ever seen.  And it didn't matter whether it was the Spanish, British, French, etc.  The U.S. Constitution which is a FEDERAL document stated that slaves were 3/5ths human.  Furthermore, the U.S. Supreme Court (fed law) stated that the Black man/woman had NO rights that whites were bound to respect.\n\nAgain do your own reading and get your own understanding.
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slavey? \n\nSlavery has not ended for everyone. There is currently sex trafficking, for example, where women are sold into sexual servitude by their families who don't value women as part of their culture or women are abducted and forced into slavery.\n\nSlavery for the Jews lasted during before World War II until after World War II where the Nazis forced them into starvation slavery where they were forced to work until they slowly starved to death. Those deemed to be unable to work when they got to the camps were thrown into fires or gas chambers or killed by other means. \n\nAfrican American slavery ended after the Civil War.\n\nThere are other forms of slavery alive and well all around the world. Do you like chocolate? Cocoa beans are harvested by slave children who often die at a young age. There are too many forms of current slavery to list here.
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No. Slavery is cruel and evil and it takes a very profitable industry to get people to overlook that.
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The Arab or Middle Eastern slave trade or trans-Saharan slavery was mostly centered around settlements and ports in East Africa. It is one of the oldest known slave trades, predating the European transatlantic slave trade by hundreds (and perhaps thousands) of years. Male slaves, after being transported and sold, were employed as servants, soldiers, or labourers by their owners. Female slaves, mostly from Africa, were long traded to Middle Eastern countries and kingdoms by Arab, Indian, or Oriental traders, some as female servants, others as sexual slaves. Arab, Indian, and Asian traders were often involved in the capture or purchase and transport of African slaves northward across the Sahara desert and the Indian Ocean region into Arabia and the Middle East, Persia, and the Indian subcontinent. As many or more African slaves may have crossed the Sahara Desert, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean as crossed the Atlantic, perhaps more. Some sources estimate that between 11 and 17 million slaves crossed the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Sahara Desert from 650 to 1900, compared to perhaps 11-12 million transported across the Atlantic from 1500 to the late 1860s. The Arab or Middle Eastern slave trade continued in some areas into the early 1900s.
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No it does not.  Here is a list of countries that do.
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I think it was wrong that it ever existed in the first place - and yes it needed to end, but...........\n\nIt is interesting to note that when slavery was finally abolished, many newly freed men and women suddenly found themselves without homes, without food and without work.\n\nAs such, no small number actually asked the ex-slave owners if they could continue working for them under the same terms as before. This was especially the case where the slave-owner had been one who was reluctant to use the whip and was a more agreeable "master" than most of the others.
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UK, Australia, Germany. There was some work done in South Africa, but I do not know the status now.
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No,Jamaica follows English (British)Law.Only some third countries still practice this type of punishment.
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Difficult to answer; here is one view (2nd link looks like better example):\nThe evolution of slavery is crucial to understanding the importance of currently standing issues. Slavery began in 1440 when Portugal started to trade slaves with West Africa. By the 16th century, Western Europeans developed an organized system of trading slaves. However, the slave trade did not run as smoothly as expected. Slaves were revolting and tried to flee the hardships of labor. Regardless of these attempts, slavery expanded, leading to the "Triangle Trade."   This trade, between Europe, Africa and the Americas, is held responsible for the dispersal of Africans in the Western hemisphere. This organized system lasted until the 1800's. Shortly after the War of Independence there was an intended law to abolish slavery. This law was stalled when the United States allowed the slavery to continue until 1800. A federal law, which was passed in 1793, allowed for the Fugitive Slave Act, which continued the slave trade and prohibited the freedom of the Africans.
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Depends on which country you come from but generally speaking the meme of each person having human rights and one of those rights is not to be a slave was a significant factor.\n\nBut I think real democracy was a big part in getting slavery abolished
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Would be nice if he could effectively eliminate it in the US. Check out this link for info about what types of slavery exist today:\n\nhttp://www.antislavery.org/homepage/antislavery/modern.htm
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The 1926 Slavery Convention described slavery as "...the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised..." Therefore, slaves cannot leave an owner or employer without explicit permission, and they will be returned if they escape. Therefore a system of slavery — as opposed to the isolated instances found in any society — requires official, legal recognition of ownership, or widespread tacit arrangements with local authorities, by masters who have some influence because of their social and/or economic status.\n\nThe word slave comes from the Latin term sclavus, which is thought to have originally referred to slavs, people from Eastern Europe, including parts of the Byzantine empire. The current usage of the word serfdom is not usually synonymous with slavery, because serfs are considered to have had some rights. In the strictest sense of the word, "slaves" are people who are not only owned, but who have no rights and are also not paid.\n\nThe International Labour Organization defines "forced labour" as "all work or service which is extracted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily", albeit with certain exceptions: military service, convicts, emergencies and minor community services. [1]. The ILO asserts that child labour amounts to forced labour in which the child's work is exacted from the family as a whole.\n\nIn some historical contexts, compulsory labour to repay debts by adults has been regarded as slavery, depending upon the rights held by such individuals.\n\nMandatory military service in liberal democracies is a controversial subject: one view is that conscripts are not "slaves", as they have substantial legal rights, and any government which took it upon itself to implement conscription, outside a time of extreme national emergency, would eventually face a backlash at an election. Another view interprets acceptance of conscription as a sign of chauvinist, ultra-nationalist and/or fascist ideologies, justified by philosophies such as the Hegelian notion of nations having rights which supersede those of individuals.\n\nIn United States legal usage, the term involuntary servitude means a condition of labouring for another without one's willful consent. It does not necessarily mean the complete lack of freedom found in chattel slavery.\n\nMany left wing thinkers have discussed the idea of "wage slavery", although it is generally accepted that payment of a wage signifies "free labour", with the quite different disadvantages experienced by such workers.\n\nOrdinary citizens in totalitarian states are not generally considered slaves, as the only real point of comparison is restrictions on movement.
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Probably when slavery was illegal, 1865.
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Women and children from India are sent to nations of the Middle East daily. Girls in prostitution and domestic service in India, Pakistan and the Middle East are tortured, held in virtual imprisonment, sexually abused, and raped. There are 300,000-500,000 children in prostitution in India. This is all true it is legal and its sad to hear this.
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If your looking for historic info, look up slave trading routes. Slaves were stored in the bahamian islands before being brought to america, they worked the cane farms there.
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slaves:\nDelaware, Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, north Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana Mississippi, Alabama\n\nfree:\nNew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts,\nNew Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio, \nIndiana, Illinois