Society, Politics & Law
Modern slavery
...families and friends. They could be doctors, actors, teachers, bookkeepers, bankers, agents, farmers, actuaries, philosophers. But they did not have the legal standing of free people: the capacity to have rights in law, to own property, to make contracts, marriages and wills, to sue and be sued in the civil courts. (Allain, 2012, p. 13) Slavery continued in the Middle...