Maybe only ordinary people still feel the existence of slavery, and only a certain part, because of this custom.
Slavery in modern day America is very much out-of-sight out-of-mind.
The two forms that come to mind are prison labor and sex slavery. I don't know the extent of the later, but it's not zero and there are people who claim it's quite high.
Prisoners are often allowed to work, but sometimes they are forced to. In some cases, you could probably argue that this is not unjust, but for those incarcerated for victimless crimes it's indistinguishable from slavery.
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In my opinion, if there are crimes that are imprisoned but there are no victims, it might not be fair if there are acts of coercion and sexual slavery in prison, this is harassment, everyone will not accept being treated like that.
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