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A human being legally reduced to property — the oldest theft, of a life itself.
means A person owned by another, forced to labor without freedom, pay, or the right to leave.
from From Medieval Latin sclavus, meaning Slav — so many Slavic peoples were captured and sold across early medieval Europe that their very name became the word for bondage.
Same rootSlav and slave share one bitter origin.
Still hereTens of millions remain enslaved today.
Abolition lagMauritania criminalized slavery only in 2007.