Is there a reason why they say forced labor instead of slavery?
Two former residents of a Missouri faith-based residential program have filed a federal lawsuit alleging they were subjected to systematic abuse, neglect, coercion and forced unpaid labor while they were minors at Kansas City Girls Academy.
Because the US is used to chattel slavery, where someone “owns” the person and the person (in general) is never freed. “Forced labor” denies the fiction of ownership and maintains the illusion that everyone can be free.
[As a complete aside, ancient Rome had a law saying that a father could only sell his son into slavery a maximum of three times.]
Is there a reason why they say forced labor instead of slavery?
Because the US is used to chattel slavery, where someone “owns” the person and the person (in general) is never freed. “Forced labor” denies the fiction of ownership and maintains the illusion that everyone can be free.
[As a complete aside, ancient Rome had a law saying that a father could only sell his son into slavery a maximum of three times.]
pretty sure that’s classed as human trafficking