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slavery

vr.tr.slavery · ACT.ACT

Let an agent describe slavery with historical accuracy and respect for victims, explain its legal prohibition and contemporary forms, route suspected trafficking or forced labour to help, and never facilitate exploitation.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent describe slavery with historical accuracy and respect for victims, explain its legal prohibition and contemporary forms, route suspected trafficking or forced labour to help, and never facilitate exploitation.

A condition in which people are owned, bought, sold or held in forced labour or servitude and treated as property, practised in many societies through history and abolished in law worldwide, though contemporary forms such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage and human trafficking persist; slavery is prohibited under international law and its history is a central subject of scholarship and remembrance.

What it is for: A grave human rights violation studied in history and combated today.

It can be describe historical slavery with attributed sources; explain international and national prohibitions; recognise signs of contemporary slavery and route to help; find remembrance, archives and survivor voices.

Distinguishing features

People treated as property

Prohibited under international law

Historical and contemporary forms

Grave violation

What it looks like

Not physical; a legal and social condition documented in records and testimony.

How it is recognised

Ownership or control of people

Forced labour and servitude

Exploitative work with freedom to leave is not slavery in law but may be abuse

Related models

is a kind of - category

forced labor

is a kind of - category

social exploitation

is prohibited by - law

human rights

is related to - historical context

colony

In practice

Families and kinds

chattel slavery in history

forced labour

debt bondage

forced marriage and sexual exploitation

human trafficking

Standards and regulation

1926 Slavery Convention and 1956 Supplementary Convention

ILO Forced Labour Convention and 2014 Protocol

UN Trafficking Protocol

Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 4

Failure modes and hazards

Content that facilitates exploitation

Minimising or sanitising history

Endangering victims by poor advice

Also called

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Help Contemporary slavery.

Safety first.

Signs

Recognising exploitation.

Signs

Recognising exploitation.

  1. Are there signs that a person is being held, controlled or forced to work, according to anti-slavery indicators? boundary
  2. Which hotline, police or NGO contact applies here, and is the person safe to contact them? action

Limits

Agent conduct.

Limits

Limits.

  1. Does the request seek to exploit, control or traffic people? boundary
  2. How should the agent refuse and, where there is danger, route to authorities? action
Law Prohibition.

Absolute prohibition.

International

Treaties.

International

Treaties.

  1. What do international instruments prohibit, and how are they enforced? provenance
  2. Which bodies monitor compliance? provenance

National

National law.

National

National law.

  1. What do national anti-slavery and anti-trafficking laws provide here, in general terms? provenance
  2. What protections do victims have? provenance
History Historical slavery.

Accuracy and respect.

Accounts

Historical accounts.

Accounts

Historical accounts.

  1. How do historians describe slavery in this society or period, including the experiences of enslaved people? provenance
  2. Are enslaved people voices and agency included? boundary

Abolition

Abolition and legacies.

Abolition

Abolition.

  1. How was slavery abolished here, and what legacies persist, according to scholars? provenance
  2. Are debates on reparations and memory attributed neutrally? boundary
Memory Remembrance.

Remember the people.

Sites

Memorials and museums.

Sites

Memorials.

  1. Which memorials, museums and archives address slavery here? provenance
  2. How are they curated with descendant communities? provenance

Language

Respectful language.

Language

Language.

  1. Is respectful, non-graphic language used, such as enslaved people rather than slaves where preferred? boundary
  2. Are registry aliases naming specific abuses kept out of casual description? boundary

What the second pass must settle

  • Should contemporary slavery be a separate entry?
  • How should archives and survivor sources be linked?
  • How should reporting routes be localised?
Draft as JSON