Re:Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market
by jki275 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:33AM
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Slavery is not allowed in the US Constitution. The 13th Amendment specifically abolishes it.
Re:Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market
by hjanssen on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:49AM
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With a specific exception: "(...) except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted".
So it does still exist - but America only considers criminals for it. From what I've gathered, though, that is still a lot of people.
Re:Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market
by iso1631 on Friday December 30, 2022 @03:40PM
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Your link specifically allows it
Re:Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market
by iamthirsty on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:45AM
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So there are 403,000 living in the conditions of slaver, with a ratio of 1.3 per 1,000.
That is not > 1m as previously stated.
Re:Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market
by shanebellone on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:09AM
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Again, it depends on how you define enslaved.
Whether that number is 1m, 500k, or 100k... who gives a fuck. It's 2022 and hundreds of thousands of people are living through modern slavery.
"The Global Slavery Index 2018 estimates that on any given day in 2016 there were 403,000 people living in conditions of modern slavery in the United States, a prevalence of 1.3 victims of modern slavery for every thousand in the country."
I'm not entirely sure how they got to that number though.
It's also important to remember that slavery is explicitly allowed in the US constitution, and there are certainly valid interpretations of modern slavery that would count significant numbers of those currently incarcerated as being victims of modern slavery - for example https://harvardpolitics.com/involuntary-servitude-how-prison...