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Why is slavery wrong nowadays?

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Slavery is wrong today because it is has always been wrong. The idea that one human being can treat another human being without any respect, as if he were property, is a violation of the Human Rights with which we are all endowed.

Slavery was outlawed by the US government in the 1800s. Imagine you are happily living out your life in a village in Africa. Some Africans from a completely different tribe grab you and sell you to white men for bars of iron and gold trinkets. These white men then force you into a ship which is really disgusting. It is full of disease and human waste. You are held in place with a metal device as well as the bodies of the other Africans who speak languages you cannot understand. You spend months in a ship that rocks and you are starved. Everyone inside gets sick and over 30% die. You arrive in a country which speaks a strange language. They sell you to a plantation owner. You have no idea what is happening to you or why you are here. You are taken to this plantation that has other black slaves. They don't speak your language either. You are beaten, starved and not adequately housed or dressed. You are made to do very hard work about 16 hours a day. You receive no pay nor healthcare. You cannot leave or escape. You can't get back home to your village or family nor do you even know where they are. Then you die never having been freed or returned to your home. The Civil War had the slavery problem as one of the reasons for the war. Slavery, slave trading and slave purchasing were all outlawed in the United States.

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