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To belabor the point generally speaking all western and Latin powers of the era employed slave labor and stole from each other.

Today lots of emerging countries still rely on what is in practice servitude labor. They don't outright own the people, but they practically do since they have little chance of escaping their situation. Migrants in se Asia. Rural folks working in Eastern china, etc., where employers withhold passports, international and national "passports".



This happens in the US, too, right now.


Just about everything exists everywhere, what matters is extent and degree and what authorities do once they find out.


It's commonplace. The H1-B visa is virtually designed for indentured servitude.




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