Does chattel slavery still exist in the world?

Question

This is not a philosophical question, but a serious one. I know some consider their jobs slavery, but does real slavery exist today. Are people still sold at auctions and worked hard. I know sexual slavery exists in parts of the world, but does it go beyond that.

Answer 1

Yes, people are enslaved. But it is not called slavery, it is mostly hidden under the name of bondage. Bonded labour – or debt bondage – is probably the least known form of slavery today, and yet it is the most widely used method of enslaving people. Here are a few examples:

In Niger, slavery was only criminalised in 1999 - and the local human rights organisation Timidria estimates 43,000 people are still held in bondage there.

The slave trade in Africa was officially banned in the early 1880s, but forced labor continues to be practiced in West and Central Africa today. UNICEF estimates that 200,000 children from this region are sold into slavery each year. Many of these children are from Benin and Togo, and are sold into the domestic, agricultural, and sex industries of wealthier, neighboring countries such as Nigeria and Gabon.

Poor families in Africa and Asia give their children against money - or the promise of money - in the age old tradition of fosterage and never see the children again who become slaves.

The enslavement of the Dinkas in southern Sudan may be the most horrific and well-known example of contemporary slavery. North African Arabs raid them and bring back slaves which are often sold as property in a thriving slave trade for as little as $15 per human being.

Bonded labour in South Asia is considered the problem in modern slavery affecting the most people. The UN believes 20 million people are enslaved worldwide, the majority of whom are in South Asia.




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Answer 2

not only "chattel slavery" but real "old fashioned" slavery exists in the world today. The main centres are Africa, Asia and Southern America- but only in parts of Africa it is a perfectly legal procedure, and is in fact encouraged and financed by the local government.
That place is Sudan.
The government there uses slavery as a means of rewarding loyal tribes- they get "license" to raid, rob and enslave everyone else- not just opponents but also neighbouring countries. The slave trade ranges all the way to Africa's west coast- Mali and Nigeria
If you consider "modern" type slavery then the main centre is (communist) China. It takes the form of industries operated by the Army- where the workers are ordinary citizens drafted for military service, except that instead of Army training they get to work in a factory for 3 years- for no pay or next to nothing.
Which kind of explains why chinese made products are so cheap- free labour. Also explains why so many people invest in China- and become "selectively blind" to facts...

Answer 3

According to human rights groups, slavery does exist for sure in parts of Asia and Africa, I dont think it's American style slavery with the auction block and all, but people are still enslaved against their will.

Answer 4

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Of course there is. Specifically in the Muslim countries of Sudan and the Middle East. Where have you been? But because slavery is officially prohibited everywhere, transactions are not done publicly in bazaars, but privately. In fact a high placed Saudi Arabian couple were arrested in London on slavery charges not very long ago. But I do not know what happened afterwords as these things are usually hushed up quickly, on national interest grounds.

Answer 5

Sadly, yet absolutely, yes. Africa..of all places, still harbors the sort of slavery that you are referring to. Sudan in particular.

Answer 6

Yes.

Answer 7

Yes, but it's not an accepted practice any more, so it has gone underground and is much harder to witness.

Answer 8

Yes - - - and while 'sex' often gets into the mix - - - most of it is the greed & venality of humans....

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/slavery1.html
""""""When a ship carrying hundreds of people was recently turned away from Benin, Africa, officials suspected that the children on board were human slaves. The incident once again brought attention to the problem of slavery. At this moment, millions of men, women, and children—roughly twice the population of Rhode Island—are being held against their will as modern-day slaves.
Sometimes referred to as bonded laborers (because of the debts owed their masters), public perception of modern slavery is often confused with reports of workers in low-wage jobs or inhumane working conditions. However, modern-day slaves differ from these workers because they are actually held in physical bondage (they are shackled, held at gunpoint, etc.).

Modern-day slaves can be found laboring as servants or concubines in Sudan, as child "carpet slaves" in India, or as cane-cutters in Haiti and southern Pakistan, to name but a few instances. According to Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest human rights organization, there are currently over 20 million people in bondage.

Where does this slavery take place? Who are the faces behind these atrocities?
The slave trade in Africa was officially banned in the early 1880s, but forced labor continues to be practiced in West and Central Africa today. UNICEF estimates that 200,000 children from this region are sold into slavery each year. Many of these children are from Benin and Togo, and are sold into the domestic, agricultural, and sex industries of wealthier, neighboring countries such as Nigeria and Gabon
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UNICEF estimates that 200,000 children from West and Central Africa are sold into slavery each year.

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The most recent incident involved the MV Etireno, which was refused from ports in Gabon and Cameroon. When the ship reached Cotonou, Benin, in April, 2001, police began an investigation of the captain and crew. More adults than children were believed to be aboard.

Chattel slavery in Sudan
The enslavement of the Dinkas in southern Sudan may be the most horrific and well-known example of contemporary slavery. According to 1993 U.S. State Department estimates, up to 90,000 blacks are owned by North African Arabs, and often sold as property in a thriving slave trade for as little as $15 per human being.

"There he found several Dinka men hobbling, their Achilles tendons cut because they refused to become Muslims."

—from an ASI report on Sudanese slavery
Animist tribes in southern Sudan are frequently invaded by Arab militias from the North, who kill the men and enslave the women and children. The Arabs consider it a traditional right to enslave southerners, and to own chattel slaves (slaves owned as personal property).

Physical mutilation is practiced upon these slaves not only to prevent escape, but to enforce the owners' ideologies. According to an ASI report: "Kon, a thirteen-year-old Dinka boy, was abducted by Arab nomads and taken to a merchant's house. There he found several Dinka men hobbling, their Achilles tendons cut because they refused to become Muslims. Threatened with the same treatment the boy converted."

In a detailed article by Charles Jacobs for the American Anti-Slavery Group (ASI), Jacobs recounts how a 10-year-old child was taken in a raid on her village in southern Sudan, and branded by her master with a hot iron pot.

Child "carpet slaves" in India


Kidnapped from their villages when they are as young as five years old, between 200,000 and 300,000 children are held captive in locked rooms and forced to weave on looms for food. In India—as well in other countries—the issue of slavery is exacerbated by a rigid caste system.


Many of our images of human slavery, like the one above, date from the American Civil War. However, there are an estimated 200 million people in bondage today.
The International Labor Rights and Education Fund is one organization that has rescued many of these child slaves. The group recalls this scene: "Children work in damp pits near the loom. Potable water is often unavailable and food consists of a few chapatis [bread balls], onions and salt...The children often are made to sleep on the ground next to their looms, or in nearby sheds. After working from ten to fourteen hours, they are expected to clean out their sheds and set up work for the next day."

Shackled laborers in Pakistan


Many of the bonded laborers are shackled in leg-irons in Pakistan. Though much of the debt these cane-harvesters have incurred is real, the practice of exchanging human labor for landowners' loans is illegal.

In a 1992 law passed by the Pakistani government, landlords are barred from offering loans in exchange for work or to hold workers hostage to their debts. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has freed approximately 7,500 bonded laborers since 1995.

By the commission's estimates, there are still roughly 50,000 bonded laborers in southern Singh. Many of those freed now reside in the city of Hyderabad in makeshift camps. Most are afraid to return to their homeland, however, for fear they will be recaptured and enslaved again.
In the Dominican Republic, the collection of slaves for the busy harvest season is more random. The Dominican army, with the support of the State Sugar Council (known as the CEA), "hauls Haitians off public buses, arrests them in their homes or at their jobs, and delivers them to the cane fields," according to Charles Jacobs.
Some of the cane-cutters sign on to work voluntarily. When the number of workers does not meet the harvest's demand, the Dominican army is set into action. The army's captives are forced to work at gunpoint and beaten if they try to escape.
Accounts of human beings as modern slaves extend beyond those described here, and include young girls sold into prostitution in Thailand and slave chattels in Mauritania. Though most Americans believe slavery was abolished with the Emancipation Proclamation more than a century ago, the horrors of human beings held in bondage flourishes today.""


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