Chattel Slavery

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CHATTEL SLAVERY DENIED

Although slavery already exists I will not participate in any form of chattel slavery. My vote will be to pay for labor from across Europe where thousands of peasants face starvation and homelessness. Chattel slavery is a civil relationship, in which one person has absolute power over the life, fortune and liberty of another person. This is immoral and will only cause division among us instead of the unity that we are seeking.
In order to obtain that unity we as a people will need to come together and do what is right by all people. There will be costs regardless of how we decide to get our labor done. My belief is that if we utilize the idea of paying for labor then we will kill three birds with one stone. The hungry

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