They worked in agricultural labor. They were an investment for their owners. They were a sign of their owner’s wealth.
Being a slave, who is unable to leave the duty they are performing for an enslaver and who is treated as the enslaver's property, is both the state and the condition of being an enslaved person. Typically, slavery involves the enslaved individual being forced to work and having their location or place of residence determined by the enslaver.
In 2019, approximately 40 million people, of whom 26 percent were children, were enslaved throughout the world despite it being illegal.
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