# Other than Americans did any other slave masters practice selective breeding?

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**Created:** [March 25, 2008, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-americans-did-any-other-slave-masters-practice-selective-breeding/442653 "2008-03-25T06:23:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-than-americans-did-any-other-slave-masters-practice-selective-breeding/442653/21 "2008-03-27T13:43:00Z")

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[QUOTE=Mr. Slant]  
How long ago was this?  
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Slavery/Bonded Labour is still much more commonplace than people realise. As well as the various human trafficking operations around the world and the situation \*\*even sven \*\*describes in North Africa, it is also a widespread problem around in Pakistan/Afghanistan and probably in many other places.

I remember reading an article in Time, Newsweek or one of those magazines a few years ago, written by a man who had attended a slave market in Pakistan where Afghan children who had been sold by their families were being auctioned. IIRC girls were priced on a descending scale according to whether they were virgins, had been penetrated anally or been penetrated vaginally. I seem to remember the top price was USD 12,000 or thereabouts.

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