'''Slavery''' was a legal economic system with involuntary servitude, such that the people held in bondage must work for their owner, and can be bought and sold (see [[slave trade]]).
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'''Slavery''' is a system of involuntary servitude such as exists in [[socialist]] [[gulag]]s, re-education camps, [[grooming gang]]s and other forms of involuntary labor and [[prostitution]]. In contemporary [[Marxist]] societies that practice slavery, the subjects have limitef or no [[Rights of man|rights]].
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was a legal economic system with involuntary servitude, such that the people held in bondage must work for their owner, and can be bought and sold (see [[slave trade]]).
Legally, the slave had limited rights. For example, it was a crime in the American South to kill or maim a slave, except in self-defense.
Legally, the slave had limited rights. For example, it was a crime in the American South to kill or maim a slave, except in self-defense.