In the U. S., the barbaric death penalty is the legacy of chattel slavery, the lynch rope made legal. |
Though chattel slavery has disappeared, Ms. Martin emphasizes that the exploitation of immigrant labor has not. |
Since the abolition of chattel slavery this has been indefeasible except for crime. |
Labor exploitation includes traditional chattel slavery, forced labor, and debt bondage. |
Within a century, chattel slavery ceased to exist in virtually every modern nation. |
No one in this world today would defend chattel slavery in any public forum or allow it under any legal code. |