And do we have slavery today?
We have the soft slavery of low expectations (GWB called it bigotry). Our charity has decayed into idle entitlements, that do not urge betterment where they are applied.
We’ll have to become ungreat in a JFK sense of the all helping government (not its mission before God) before we can become great in a Trumpian sense.
Reforming this may or may not entail a Section V action on an earthly plane. God acts in mysterious ways, so goes the saying. But we need the spiritual basis.
Yes: Social Security.
Yes: ObamaCare.
Yes: the lack of liberty to even build your own house without intrusive regulation, and a million other "you have to have permission" things.
In fact, you might be able to argue that it's more institutionalized now because it's the institutions of government that are doing it.