I was a contemporary slave for ten years.
Geeze... I'm sorry to hear that. But what is a contemporary slave? I've never heard the term before.
It refers to slavery that exists in present day.
Ah okay, like the people who are making Nike shoes?
Something like that. There are between 21-46 million slaves today.
That's sad. I heard that a lot people making band name clothing are pretty much slaves also. Getting paid cents per day.
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Definition.
The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons agency of the United States Department of State says that modern slavery', 'trafficking in persons', and 'human trafficking' have been used as umbrella terms for the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion". Besides these, a number of different terms are used in the US federal Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection
Slavery in the 21st century
Contemporary slavery, also known as modern slavery or neo-slavery, refers to institutional slavery that continues to occur in present-day society. Estimates of the number of slaves today range from around 21 million to 46 million, depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition of slavery being used. The estimated number of slaves is debated, as there is no universally agreed definition of modern slavery, those in slavery are often difficult to identify, and adequate statistics are often not