Slavery - was Houseelves loyalty

[Janette]

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Jordan Abel wrote:
>
> For that matter, slaves haven't been any kind of property in the muggle
> world for over a
> century, since property is defined by law and slavery is illegal.


montims:
nitpicking here, but it's a bit of a hobby horse of mine since discussing it
in TLC - the muggle world is larger than the USA, and in the last century,
to our shame, there have been many, many slave cultures - in the Soviet
Union, Nazi Germany, South Africa until the fall of apartheid in 1990.  That
is not to mention the smaller nations, such as Sudan, practising
slavery even today, child slavery, human trafficking, and the minor levels
of domestic slavery carried out in "civilised" nations including the USA
today, who employ illegals and keep their documents to prevent them from
leaving.

>From wikipedia (admittedly not always accurate) -

According to a broader definition used by Kevin Bales of Free the
Slaves<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_the_Slaves>,
another advocacy group linked with Anti-Slavery International, there are 27
million people (though some put the number as high as 200 million) in
virtual slavery today, spread all over the world (Kevin Bales, *Disposable
People*). This is, also according to that group:

   - The largest number of people that has ever been in slavery at any
   point in world history.

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