AHC:Create a stable modern developed state with widespread non-racial chattel slavery

The idea is to create a stable state with modern technology that still has widespread chattel slavery without any racial discrimination. I'm not saying the slaves can't be educated or do skilled labour, but they must be owned by someone else and have no rights but what their owners give them.

Of course any state in OTL who had a system like that would end up isolated with embargoes, so it might be easier to make it a global trend, but its not nessesary as long as the state has the same level of development as a first world country.

You *might* hypothetically be able to do this if, at some point, you eliminate the monetary trade in slaves. But given how unlikely that is, your best bet is a dictatorship after, say, 1950-60 or so.
 
Maybe if you keep the practice going of enslaving enemies captured in war, that could provide a way of keeping the practice going. Since there are POWs from pretty much any country that fights in wars, there would be much less of a racial component to it. Possibly it could even be seen as a merciful action -- "Well, we can't leave all these conquered peoples behind our front lines as potential fifth columnists, but killing them would be cruel. I know, let's enslave them instead! That way we don't have to deal with uprisings at our back, and they don't get brutally massacred. Win-win!"
 
I think most China-industrialization scenarios will probably create some form of slavery - there is a long tradition of that in China, though official bans have been issued since the Zhou era.

Anyway, the point is that China-industrialization scenarios will probably involve an explosion in agricultural production at some point, which would then create a massive surge in the peasant population - leading to the age-old Chinese problem, diminishing farmland per person and thus widespread peasant poverty and famine.

This could lead to a dystopic 'high-level equilibrium' scenario where wage demands fall to cover only food and water needs - which means that employers only need to feed/water their employees in exchange for work and maybe throw in a few binding agreements as well, i.e. slavery.
 
It would probably be some Muslim-Arabian state, based around north Africa and the Middle East. Maybe a surviving, yet smaller, Arabian Empire. Islamic law allows for non-Islamic slaves, so maybe captured christians from Spain and Italy mainly, and pagan Africans from the Mali area maybe, being used as slaves in a Modern Arabian Empire. The POD would be so far back, that the rest of the world would just be used to the slaves in Arabia, and not bat an eye about it.

Maybe if Arabia ends up colonizing, those colonies/countries would do it too, by enslaving natives who don't convert to Islam.
 
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