Here we take another look at Mencius's discussion of human nature in association with his definition of ren/jen, and get at a better understanding of the Mencian approach to the human being. 1. Ren/jen (human heartedness/humaneness) as innate human nature
Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel slavery that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries after it gained independence and before the end of the American Civil War.
There are at least 25 million children worldwide in a sexual form of slavery every year. There are more children in other forced labor, and there are adults as well. Legally slavery is abolished in the USA, however it still exists. Slavery has never disappeared. In the U.S., Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves within the Confederacy on January 1, 1863. Lincoln was concerned that this was done under his war powers and might not stand in peacetime.