• Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club
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      2 days ago

      I once read a reddit post where some teen confessed that her family had a slave. She was like, “I think my family had a slave.” They immigrated to the US from Indonesia or something and brought along their “adopted” kid. This teen’s mother made this kid do all the chores for like 12 hours a day, and would beat her if she fell asleep on the job. It turns out a lot of families from their home country had “helper” children of a different ethnicity.

      I read a statistic years ago that there are more slaves today than there ever have been at any one time in human history.