Understanding Slavery Today
Understanding Slavery Today
This chapter discusses the different features of slavery. It discusses the persistence of slavery in the twenty-first century, hereditary debt bondage in India, and the consequences of botched emancipation as seen in the United States after the Civil War and in postapartheid South Africa. The chapter reviews the work of investigators who are drawing attention to the dark corners of contemporary slavery, considers the question of why governments are not doing more to combat slavery, and looks at the economic costs and benefits of slavery and freedom.
Keywords: slavery, slaves, debt bondage, emancipation, freedom
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