PRACTICAL HISTORY: DOMESTIC SLAVERY | 2008-02-27
Who the hell would WANT slaves today? The only slaves you hear about today are the illegal aliens hired by rich people who become candidates for public office. In recent history this was a common campaign scandal.
But this kind of slavery is for the super rich and the very, VERY rich.
I know a number of merely very rich people. None of them has a regular daily maid.
From what I see the difference is that the merely very rich live in very rich COMMUNITIES. They have huge expensive houses that are next to other huge expansive houses. Their neighbors know exactly who lives there, and the community is very touchy about add-ons where strangers can be allowed to stay for long periods of time.
The very, VERY rich live in COMPOUNDS like OJ Simpson's'. He could let anybody live with him in a little add-on. He could have had a live-in illegal without comment from his neighbors. A live-in domestic slave is a natural result of this sort of arrangement.
Hence domestic slavery was a phenomenon of limousine liberalism.
Limousine liberals who want to run for public office are now very careful about his now, so it is not as common a SCANDAL today. But I wonder if the very, VERY rich in general have cut down on domestic slavery.