Slavery By Country

"Our state’s slave law is ancient, and the scholar-officials depend on [slaves] to survive ... Slaves are the hands and feet of the literati."

"In fact, it is in the oriental state of Korea that we find one of the most extraordinary cases of economic dependence on slaves among all peoples and all periods. Large-scale slavery flourished there for over a thousand years up to the nineteenth century. For several centuries the service population was proportionately higher than the one in the U.S. South at its peak of dependence on slavery in the nineteenth century."

"The train pulls in and the refugees are herded out. Then they are sold… into slavery. Slavery, not forced labor or some such euphemism… The number in Sudan [of slaves] can only be estimated–tens of thousands. Only owners take precise slave counts."

"[O]n the African continent, a resurgence of human slavery has occurred in Sudan. In this zealously Islamic nation, black Christians have been enslaved by the thousands, largely by Baggara Arab Muslims. … [W]hat would it take to abolish slavery in Sudan? There is no principle of individual rights in the nation’s history–and Islam, the dominant religion, permits slavery of non-Muslims."