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'''Slavery''' also indentured servitude (in the [[Banu Protectorate]]) are terms for various similar illegal practices which includes the imprisonment, trafficking of sentient [[Race|species]]. Slaves are often forced to work in mines, fight in in gladiatorial rings or used for scientific experimentation. They are sometimes marked by their 'owners'.{{RSI|ref=yes|text=Writer's Guide: Part Five|int=Comm-Link:Writer's Guide - Part Five|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/12980-Writers-Guide-Part-Five}}

Trafficking, smuggling or enslaving of sentient beings is forbidden in the UEE.

Child and forced labour existed in the [[Messer Era]]. Slavery and slave trafficking is now outlawed in the [[United Empire of Earth]], the [[Xi’an Empire]] and de jure in the Banu Protectorate. However, some planet-states within the Protectorate still allowing the ownership of slaves.

Slavery in the Banu Protectorate seems to be regulated by a set of rules. A [[Souli]] can possess slaves ("and apprentices"), but enslavement is not permanent. [[Dave Haddock]] writes that "a Banu don't view their slaves as property or things. (...) just ones who have (...) been entered into this arrangement (...)." A slave can eventually buy their freedom.<ref name=":0">[https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/50259/thread/how-enslaved-is-a-banu-slave How enslaved is a Banu slave·?] (RSI Forum), 2017-10-16</ref>

Banu parents sell their children to [[Evaluation Souli]] ("Evaluation Guilds") who check their skills and sell them to other Souli for training and "apprenticeship".<ref name=":0" />

* [[Spider]], criminal haven in the [[Cathcart System]]

* [[Nyx System]] - a 'traveling' slave market

* [[Olympus]], [[Nul]] - home to another 'traveling' slave market.

* [[Kins II]] has a 'servant market'.

Slavelike labour was reported on [[QuarterDeck]] and [[Stanton II]].

Slavers are seen as 'scum' even among other criminals. They seem to have a very bad reputation within the human society.{{RSI|ref=yes|text=Writer's Guide: Part Five|int=Comm-Link:Writer's Guide - Part Five|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/12980-Writers-Guide-Part-Five}}

* [[Anthony Tanaka]], child worker. His death sparked the resistance against the Messer dictatorship.

* [[Fair Chance Act]], a UEE law which protects developing species