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With the latest PoD possible, create a TL where legal, chattel(-esque) slavery is a major factor (or, if you're ambitious, the key institution) in the world economy. We're talking one out of every 20 persons on the planet being somebody's property*.

It doesn't have to be race based, but it can be; also, while I'd like technology to be equivalent to OTL as possible (or at least for there still to be an industrial revolution of some kind), I'm fully open to differences existing as needed.

No geopolitical restrictions, though I'm curious about that facet too. All in all, this should be interesting (if somewhat unsettling)...

*should really go without saying that slaves used primarily for sex would constitute a minority of this massive population
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