Slavery has never gone away. It has however changed form. What Susan calls systemic slavery contains within it all the earlier types of 'people ownership'. Today, slavery is almost solely economic. We no longer load people aboard ships and transport them. We don't have to, because now we can be slaves in our own countries. Ethnicity and religion do play roles, but they're roles promulgated by media based on perceptions flung about regarding race, religion and any other generalization that can be used to divide common people.

We face a growing crisis in the world today. It's not new at all, but it is diabolical and insidious. People planet-wide have become chattel slaves, and until such time we throw off the yoke, we will continue to play our parts. Dave the Gnome (on an older thread) brought up a most important consideration when he referred us to media as being not only culpable but also responsible for how we view things and interpret the results. The 'official' media is owned by a relatively small group of people, and the unofficial media is silently coerced along selected paths by social media moderating companies interested in herding us to given positions and Hobson's choices that are of benefit to their bottom lines. They have made excellent use applying aspects of John Donne's Meditation XVII, very effectively imo. Indeed, ask not for whom the bell tolls.

YMMV and please pardon the thread drift.