>carrol, anyone, have any ideas about slavery (or slave-like forms of
>work) in the US today?
Immigrants from places like China, India, and Mexico, are frequently brought to the U.S. and the forced into indentured servitude to pay off the debts to the smugglers who brought them here. For example, I've heard several stories about rich Indian professionals in the NYC area who advertise in India for maids, promising all sorts of goodies; when the women arrive here, their passports are taken and they're more or less unable to leave their employers' houses. There are frequent stories about farm workers, originally from Mexico and Central America, kept in virtual slavery; there's a lot of tut-tutting in the press when the stories are published, then things go back to exploitation as usual. Peter Kwong has written a lot about indentured servitude among Chinese workers in New York City.
Doug