term “slave” without recalling the history of chattel slavery—the horrors of the Middle Passage, the plantation system that thrived in the nineteenth century American South because of the traffic in black bodies, and the lasting political, social, and economic damage that this history has caused for African American communities until today. And other forms of slavery continue to infest our world. In the sex trade, in factories, in mines, on farms, millions of people are forced to work without pay