How Hidden Versions of Slavery Still Exist

Daniel B. Martin
8 min readApr 28, 2021

While this article will focus on this topic from a uniquely American standpoint, lets not kid ourselves and pretend that this is not a global occurrence.

While human property slavery was outlawed in the US in 1865, by the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, slavery still exists, is widespread and is highly pervasive. I am not even talking about people being hidden in the basement for years.

In the modern era, the types of widespread slavery that I am appealing this inquiry toward occur primarily in one of two types: economic, or…

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Daniel B. Martin

Author and Philosopher. Philosophical musings and bits on the absurdities of modern life. @prefuturedan Books: Life is Weird, Son of a Madman & Alethea’s Dreams