Slavery by another name

Historian Douglas Blackmon wrote a book titled "Slavery by another Name".  After the Civil War, after the slaves were freed, the South quickly replaced slavery with: segregation, share cropping, prison gangs, and lynching--a combination as bad as slavery.  Is there a kinder and gentler form of slavery in place today?  Such as low wage jobs?

The law of the land and slavery have taken many twists and turns throughout American history.  In 1607, blacks were indentured servants.  But by 1660, in Virginia, black slavery was legal.  Legal slavery continued on until 1863.  From 1863, to the present, physical slavery has been illegal in the United States.

George and Martha Washington, together, owned 300 slaves legally.  If one of their slaves ran away, the sheriff could hunt the slave down and return the slave to the owner.  The sheriff did not arrest the owner for owning a slave.

Fast forward, it is now illegal to own a single slave.  We changed the law.  In fact, the US law is stricter than the Old Testament sabbatical law which required that slaves be freed every seven years.
The US law, no slaves period.

The American church should continually be pushing to make the law of the land more just.  Is it just to pay a poverty wage to a person who works full-time?  The Seattle city council says no.  It recently passed an ordinance requiring a living wage--$15/hour--be paid.  So now, in Seattle, a poverty wage, which might be considered a modern form of slavery, will be illegal in Seattle.