child slaves
Forced youth laborers
Child slaves are children held in bondage and forced to work without freedom or compensation.
The term covers historical practices like plantation slavery and modern forms including debt bondage, forced domestic service, and trafficking: Investigators discovered child slaves working in the cocoa fields.
Distinguished from child labor by the element of ownership or captivity.
- forced laborCompelled toil, no consent
- human traffickingCriminal trade in people
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
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