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Child soldiers and child labor
Main article: Child slavery

See also: Child labour and Military use of children

In 2007, Human Rights Watch estimated that 200,000 to 300,000 children served as soldiers in then-current conflicts. More girls under 16 work as domestic workers than any other category of child labour, often sent to cities by parents living in rural poverty as with the Haitian restaveks. Children were not allowed to work much until they were the age of 14 to 15. "Dey didn't let children work much in dem days till dey were thirteen or fourteen years old" (Yellerday).

Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 2, Jackson-Yellerday. 1936. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, .

Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave, who is someone forbidden to quit their service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as their property. Slavery typically involves the enslaved person being made to perform some form of work while also having their location or residence dictated by the enslaver. Many historical cases of enslavement occurred when the enslaved broke the law, became indebted, or suffered a military defeat; other forms of slavery were instituted along demographic lines such as race. The duration of a person's enslavement might be for life, or for a fixed period of time, after which freedom would be granted. Although most forms of slavery are explicitly involuntary and involve the coercion of the enslaved, there also exists voluntary slavery, entered into by the enslaved to pay a debt or obtain money. In the course of human history, slavery was a typical feature of civilization, legal in most societies, but it is now outlawed in most countries of the world, except as a punishment for a crime. African American slaves were close together and almost like family to an extent. "We cannot live without each other, and we should not if we could" (Hurley 14).

Hurley, F. F, and Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection. The Negro in America: the influence of his presence upon the material, social, moral, and political development of the nation, and the identity of his interests with interests of other Americans. [Columbia, S.C.: R.F. Hurley, 1899] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, .