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by pbiggar 5064 days ago
I quoted my source above: Disposable People by Kevin Bales. It discusses 6 case studies of modern day slavery: sex slavery in thailand, kidnapping for farm workers in Brazil, "old timey" slave ownership in Mauritania, and indentured servitude in India and Pakistan.

My history is a little shaky on old American slavery, but I'm pretty sure that a large number of indentured servants brought to colonies in the Caribbean were disposable: they were worked til they died and never managed to leave their servitude.