How is that not accurate? Renting out a room for someone to live in is legal but in some places it isn't illegal to do so without the proper zoning and/or permits. Therefore you would call someone doing that "illegally renting".

Because "enslaving" refers to the action of making someone a slave, not to the action of shipping someone who was already a slave to a new location. That's "illegally shipped", not "illegally enslaved".

Agreed on this point, although I also find the terminology of "legally enslaved" to be poor as I'm sure the enslaved people themselves did not give credence to that law.

I think it should be illegal in all contexts because the slaves did not consent and they were people too. Not recognizing them as such does not make it legal.

They're talking about what was legal then. We're all agreed slavery should be illegal now, even if it isn't explicitly set down in law.

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.

Reprehensible as this likely comes off to most, I think it's entirely worth voicing for the fact that it reminds us to consider our present day actions, how they fight into greater society, and if we are only cooperating because our pay depends on it.

I have to agree. The title seemed to indicate being abducted as slaves was part of the story. But, the slaves were part of a legal slave trade at the time. The real story was their survival as castaways. The fact that they were slaves is incidental.

That's a hell of a nitpick, but ok, we've taken 'illegally' out above.

This is not the nitpickers anonymous meeting?

(Does he get a prize?)