The "victim" in this situation saw an ad, answered it and agreed with the process. Can we say that about, say, Frederick Douglass, Harriett Tubman or Kunta Kinte?
And, if Bob runs an ad for a slave, and Bill agrees to become his slave, from where do we get the authority to say that's wrong? Consenting adults, right? And if we say, "you can't buy his servitude, slavery's illegal," what if they call each other "master" and "slave" and no money changes hands while Bill works for Bob for free in perpetua? Consenting adults, right?
Blackstone, in response to the notion that a man can sell himself into slavery, said, "Every sale implies a price, a
quid pro quo, an equivalent given to the seller in lieu of what he transfers to the buyer; but what equivalent can be given for the life and liberty, both of which, in absolute slavery, are held to be in the master's disposal? His property also, the very price he seems to receive, devolves
ipso facto to his master the instant he becomes a slave. In this case the buyer gives nothing, and the seller receives nothing. Of what validity, then, can a sale be which destroys the very principles upon which all sales are founded?"
