(you could argue things like “wage slavery,” but that’s still significantly different from chattel slavery or serfdom)

Human trafficking is illegal everywhere. It still happens, but does so in the shadows. If a nation can just accuse another of not doing enough to combat human trafficking, that’s subjective by how much is “enough,” and the scope of it is hard to prove in an objective and indisputable way. Any nation could accuse any other nation and it would be a free pass whenever anyone wanted to go to war.

I’m talking about having an official stance of legalized chattel slavery or serfdom.