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The legal fiction that a person could be property, enforced by everything except conscience.
means A system in which people are owned, forced to work without freedom, pay, or the right to leave.
from From Medieval Latin sclavus, meaning Slav, because so many Slavic peoples were captured and enslaved in early medieval Europe that their name became the word for bondage itself.
Still hereRoughly 50 million people enslaved today.
Oldest lawHammurabi's code already regulated it, circa 1750 BCE.
Late abolitionMauritania criminalized it only in 2007.