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‘Sea Slaves’: The human misery that feeds pets and...
Slavery doesn't involve kidnapping if there is a legal framework for selling people (which by definition isn't kidnapping).
1stop
on July 27, 2015
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Are you talking about people born into slavery? Like from slave parents. Because the transition from non slave to slave is some form of kidnapping/trafficking.
The conversion of something to property is almost always a theft of some sort.
gherkin0
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I think the Romans could sell their family members into slavery to pay off debts, etc.
peterfirefly
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Or themselves.
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