How can it be legal to own a human being?

It could absolutely be legal. It just isn't moral. Don't confuse the two - there are many things in our world that are legal but not moral, and vice versa.

Slavery is still alive and well in the United States today - it has just changed form. If you owe any debt, you are a slave to whom you owe. All the money you work for goes to someone else. If you have a title to a house or land, you don't really "own" that house or land. If you don't believe me, read the title. You are listed as a TENANT - not "owner". Why? Because slaves are not allowed to own property. You are a slave.

Well you see, slaves provide free labor for the profit of the slave owner. It is desirable for a business to produce without having to worry about paying or respecting the rights of their workforce.

Since this slave capital produces profit for the company owners, slave traders have an incentive to capture slaves from communities that are not adequately prepared to defend themselves. By doing so, the traders are able to profit themselves from selling slaves to said businesses.

Also, since both the business and slave trade parties do not want to deal with that pesky system of moral values, it's easy enough to fabricate an excuse as to why this particularly profitable way of life is morally acceptable.

Thus, we have human trafficking :)

The US Constitution no longer provides for slave ownership. I don't know how they justified it to themselves. A lot of dehumanizing I suppose.

Of course, now we outsource our slavery to China, so out of sight out of mind. :(

Hey, take away electricity and we'll go back to slavery in a generation. Wage slavery isn't so vastly different than the official kind anyway.

People are evil

keep that in mind the next time your kissing your bosses azz or dealing with a used car salesman

Being owned?

Ever experienced being in big debt?

easy, its called debt

It isn't legal.