the common denominator was not race, but poverty. The book spoke of the slavery occurring in places like Thailand and brazil. In Thailand young women would be conned into being in “contract” slavery and forced to work as prostitutes to settle their families’ debt. Slavery grows best in extreme poverty because the price of keeping a slave must be less than or equal to the cost of hiring free labor. Slaveholders believed that having slaves was a contribution made to the economy by providing jobs even though it was free labor. They would even go as far to say that they were lifting the debt bonded girls out of rural poverty. Rural poverty; meaning surviving off as little as five hundred baht ($20) a month. Absolute poverty most times meant eating insect infested food with no place to stay which is what a slave would have to endure if he/she were to leave their slave
the common denominator was not race, but poverty. The book spoke of the slavery occurring in places like Thailand and brazil. In Thailand young women would be conned into being in “contract” slavery and forced to work as prostitutes to settle their families’ debt. Slavery grows best in extreme poverty because the price of keeping a slave must be less than or equal to the cost of hiring free labor. Slaveholders believed that having slaves was a contribution made to the economy by providing jobs even though it was free labor. They would even go as far to say that they were lifting the debt bonded girls out of rural poverty. Rural poverty; meaning surviving off as little as five hundred baht ($20) a month. Absolute poverty most times meant eating insect infested food with no place to stay which is what a slave would have to endure if he/she were to leave their slave