Slavery Through the Ages

Slavery has never perished and it never will. We will always be part of it, and i is part of human nature. Humans tend to make others inferior because the want to feel better than the rest. Since the greeks inhabited this earth slavery has existed. Furthermore, it has changed forms and transformed, but it has always been there. Nowadays people want to believe slavery is over, when in reality its not: it simple changed again. 

The first record we have of slaves was from the Greeks. It was such a long time ago so we do not have to much information about their work. What we know however, is that they were almost identical to citizens. Greek slaves hey were only deprived of civic rights, meaning they couldn't  participate in political affairs. Many slaves were in charge of reading in classes, so they were literate. Nevertheless, slaves in the nineteenth century were deprived from many things, such as reading and writing. They were treated as everything except as human beings. Their treatment was inhumane and cruel. American slaves suffered "from hunger, but much more from cold" (Pg. 39). Nevertheless, slaves such as Douglass thought that if "The white children could tell their ages. [They] could not tell why [they] ought to be deprived of the same privilege" (Pg 14).

Nowadays things have changed once again. We encounter two types of slavery. Slavery as we used to know it is now illegal, however people people are kidnapped and trafficked in the black market. Women and children are forced to do things against the law, and against themselves in this kind of slavery. Their families and their lives are usually threatened if they do not follow orders. Moreover, the most common type of servitude seen today is comprehended through capitalism. This type of imprisonment is legal, but not humane. People are forced to work for a living in precarious conditions because there is no other alternative. They receive one dollar wages or less for ten or more hours of hard work. If this isn't slavery, then what is it? 

We have achieved one thing only. We have managed to make the slavery we used to know illegal. Though that is an advancement we have to take into account that capitalism is the new slavery. We have to do things to sop this type of slavery from taking over, because if we do not do it now, we never will. Slavery nowadays is portrayed to be legal, and completely correct, but is it truly humane?