Debt bondage

trade of humans for the purpose of forced labor, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others

Serfdom was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery. It developed during late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in Europe and lasted in some countries until the mid-19th century and became the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism and similar systems.

state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States

prostitution involving a child

thumb|right|250px|Hacienda Lealtad is a working coffee hacienda which used slave labor in the 19th century, located in [[Lares, Puerto Rico.]]

person's pledge of their labor or services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation

ostensibly temporary slave via contract

person who offered loans with extremely high interest rates, often with strict terms of collection

thumb| ama-gi4 written in Classical Sumerian|Classical [[Sumerian cuneiform]] Ama-gi is a Sumerian word written ama-gi4 or ama-ar-gi4. Sumerians used it to refer to release from obligations, debt, slavery, taxation, or punishment. Ama-gi has been regarded as the first known written reference to the concept of freedom, and has been used in modern times as a symbol for libertarianism.

discriminatory state and local laws passed after the Civil War

thumb|Foreman and country peon by Prilidiano Pueyrredón (1823 - 1870)

overview of slavery practices in ancient Egypt

Roman 4th century BC law

slavery in the Bible

Nexum was a debt bondage contract in the early Roman Republic. A debtor pledged his person as collateral if he defaulted on his loan. Details as to the contract are obscure and some modern scholars dispute its existence. It was allegedly abolished either in 326 or 313 BC.

Seisachtheia (, from σείειν seiein, to shake, and ἄχθος achthos, burden, i.e. the relief of burdens) was a set of laws instituted by the Athenian lawmaker Solon (c. 638 BC–558 BC) in order to rectify the widespread serfdom and slavery that had run rampant in Athens by the 6th century BCE, by debt relief.

thumb|262x262px|Piedade farm. The Casa-grande|master's house of a coffee plantation founded in the 18th century in [[Paty do Alferes in the Province (now state) of Rio de Janeiro]]

1881–1947 French colonial laws for natives

system of indentured servitude, functioning as a substitute for slave labour, following the abolition of the slave trade in 1833 and continued until the 1920s

17th–19th century labor system