The author argues that there ceases to exist one universally accepted definition of slavery, but rather several definitions that continue to be revised or added onto beginning in 1926, that defined slavery as a person's status is attached to the powers of their owner, denying their freewill, although this definition fails to include violence which is a common phenomenon in every slavery case. These varying definitions may be reason as to why slavery continues to be a global phenomenon, because although legal slavery has been recently eradicated, illegal slavery continues to persist, and sometimes these laws are not even enforced. International laws describe freedom as a human right, violated by slavery, although many human rights abuses that may not be slavery, can also deny individual autonomy.
The first efforts to eradicate slavery merely targeted the slave trade by the League of Nations.…