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": "assistant", "content": "It's really sad that slavery still exists and is really prevalent, in fact there's an estimated 21 to 29 million slaves currently."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What? That's horrible!! I can't believe it! Where?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It still exists in some countries in Africa, I believe in places like Mauritania for instance."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's very sad! I wonder why they still have slavery and why nobody does anything about it"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, it was technically outlawed in 1981, but I think it has such a long history that people are almost accepting of it and so it continues."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I hope it will end soon. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I do too. It's not just in Africa, though, it also exists in the USA as well, but it's better known as human trafficking and not slavery."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, I know about human trafficking. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's quite a big problem, especially near international travel spots with large numbers of immigrants like California and Texas."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, that's extremely sad. And now they keep people in cages and separate kids from parents..."}]