Has slavery then really been abolished?

Answer 1

only enforced slavery has been banished

Answer 2

The only thing the emancipation proclamation did along with the 13th amendment was make slavery (indentured servitude) illegal. Basically if you work for someone they don't own you and they have to pay you or they're violating the law.

Some people compare minimum wage labor to slavery which is ridiculous to the point of excess. Slaves can't quit or look for other work if you're working minimum wage then you're most likely a teenager with no marketable skills working a job that requires no marketable skills.

No business is going to pay the minimum wage alone because they want the best workers. If you want to be productive and gain an edge over your competition you have to treat your employees well if you don't they'll leave for other opportunities.

You don't need the government to raise what the market has done on it's own. I make more than double the minimum wage with too many benefits to count and i dropped out of college. Once you increase the minimum wage you increase the cost of living so it serves no purpose.

As for slavery it is illegal but hey drugs are illegal and you haven't seen them go away.

Answer 3

Some years ago, the United Nations took the firm position that genocide and slavery were world crimes, should be eradicated and those engaged in it should be put on trial by the world court in The Hague, (Resolution 260 (111 A), UN General Assembly). Yet the world has not addressed the crimes being committed in southern Sudan, where it is rife. In India families have to sell themselves into slavery when their crops fail and in Nigeria prosperous families will often have a poor child working as a slave in their household (I have come across cases of this in Britain). A similar system operates in Haiti, where a destitute child will have no other way to keep body and soul together than to act as a slave for a family. While many believe that the slave trade ended some time ago, there are still over 27 million people held in bondage today. In addition to chattel and sex slaves throughout Africa and parts of Asia, there are cases of human trafficking documented in affluent neighbourhoods in the Western World. While there is poverty and despair on such a massive scale, slavery cannot be relegated to history.

Answer 4

No. Abolishment of slavery would infer it does not exist anymore.

What President Lincoln did back in the day was declare an Emancipation Proclomation which put into law that in the States of Union (USA, but not the Confederated States at the time) slavery of any sort was illegal.

If illegalizing something truly abolishes it, then who were Elliot Ness and Al Capone?

Answer 5

The Civil conflict did bring about the top of slavery in united statesa.. even nevertheless, the emancipation proclamation did no longer abolish slavery. the stern wording in easy terms outlawed slavery 'interior any State or specified area of a State the individuals whereof shall then be in insurrection against the USA' and since the Confederacy did comprehend the authority of the Union they have been under no compulsion to word it. The thirteenth modification became what fairly abolished slavery because it became observed on December 6 1865 and utilized to all states.

Answer 6

Slavery has not, or ever will be abolished. As long as someone has to do something to satisfy another for compensation, and that other is in a position of power, slavery will always exist.

Answer 7

Far fom it. It has ceased to be a visible trade,. Atrade that in the UK was the backbone of much of the weealth generated that in turn enabled the industrial revolution and was estimated to be (in todays terms) worth billions. But..while that trade has ended there are countries where a form of slavery exist. Where people are not deemed to be of equal status and more importantly viewed as inferior then slavery or conditions for slavery arise. Slavery also constitues abuse of power, sweat shops, exploitation and human trafficking...so much more needs to be doneand that means living ethically questioning more and knowing more about global sourcing of cheap t-shirts and otehr items.

Answer 8

Yes and no. Involuntary ownership of others is mostly gone. Many nations have little workers rights laws that almost equate to the workforce being slaves. Even here we have limited and mostly unofficial (aka illegal) glass ceilings, and other restrictions. Why does it persist? Many people are natural born slaves. Sheep in human clothing who don't care what is done to them or what they are made to do as long as somebody else is in charge and they do not have to make decisions or take responsibility for their actions. So overall the answer is no, slavery will continue as long as people are afraid to take accountability for themselves and face the unknown and frightening with a self-determination.

Answer 9

In a word no it hasn't in Britain, in USA, all over the place it's still happening, it's just changed. I don't mean just sweatshops or minimum wage but things like people trafficking which is rife across europe and the rest of the world. Alternatively a socialist viewpoint could say that alot of us are slaves to the capitalist societies we live in. Capitalist countries would say in other countries they are slaves to brainwashed ideology. Just depends how you define slave and slavery.

Answer 10

No it has not, it is more wide spread now than ever ( even in America sorry ) Just because you don't see black people with chains does not mean it has gone , in Africa it is normal for Arab type peoples to have them, in America you have the prostitution problem, the Mexicans who are there illegally, China towns, always good for a few illegal immigrants trying to pay off an impossible debt, and of coarse Europe, there are an estimated 500,000 young girls who are in the prostitution rackets, I suggest to start to look around you or at least buy a TV.

Answer 11

Many of the prostitutes working in Britain, brought into this country from Eastern Europe, forced into the sex industry, and receiving none of the income from their 'efforts', are slaves in all but name. If the government got a lot tougher and tried to bring back the stigma for paying for sex (naming and shaming would eliminate the view that it's not much different from watching a strip show), there wouldn't be so much demand anymore.