i was a slave for 10 years.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Contemporary slavery, also known as modern slavery, refers to the institutions of slavery that continue to exist in the present day. Estimates of the number of slaves today range from around 21 million\u201329 million to 46 million. The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons agency of the United States Department of State says that modern slavery', 'trafficking in persons', and 'human trafficking' have been used as umbrella terms for the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion\". Besides these, a number of different terms are used in the US federal Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, including \"involuntary servitude\", \"slavery\" or \"practices similar to slavery\", \"debt bondage\", and \"forced labor\". According to American professor Kevin Bales, co-founder and former president of Free the Slaves, modern slavery occurs \"when a person is under control of another person, who applies violence and force to maintain that control, and the goal of that control is exploitation\".\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Slavery is a horrible practice.  Is it still in existence anywhere?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Not in the traditional sense, no. However, human trafficking and commercial lewd acts by force are still, unfortunately, quite common."}, {"role": "user", "content": "It is illegal everywhere though, right?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's one of those crimes against humanity that's illegal everywhere, yes. Trading people, even if they stay in one country, is horrible."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I agree.  What are the penalties if you are caught?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Harboring, transporting, or providing a person for any coerced act is a prison sentence of 10 years to life, at least in the US."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow!  If that is not a deterent than what is?  "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, apparently it isn't much of a deterrent, because the number of current humans being trafficked ranged from 29 to 46 million people today."}]