The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #62934   Message #1019095
Posted By: Rapparee
15-Sep-03 - 08:58 AM
Thread Name: Songs for white slaves?
Subject: RE: Songs for white slaves?
And within the last few years some folks in the US (Southern California, I believe) were tried and convicted under the anti-slavery statutes. They would buy "natives" from different countries to work as domestic servants, pay no wages, "discipline" them, provide only minimal foor and care.

Children are treated as slaves in some areas on the Ivory Coast, I believe I've heard.

Piracy is also making a comeback, and pirates have enslaved "boat people" in the past.

Slavery is one of the few things I actually hate.