starfish42 opened this issue on Sep 25, 2007 · 116 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 26 September 2007 at 1:41 AM
Actually, chattel slavery is still very much a part of today's world. You can easily buy a child or a woman in certain parts of Africa and the Middle East.
A couple of American men went over to -- Sudan(?) Chad (?) -- recently, and bought a small boy for (I think) $600......just to show how easily it could be done. They brought the boy back to the States with them, announced their actions -- and promptly precipitated a huge fight over the morality of what they had done.
In reality: I think that certain people in this country were made just a little too uncomfortable by having such a thing demonstrated so openly.
But you are right: this is getting way off topic. I'm signing off for the night.