Slavery and Slave Trade Never Came to an End but Morphed into Acceptable Sophistries of Modernity: A Hindsight Examination of the Historicity of Ancient Africa-Europe Relations to Understand the Present and Projecting the Future

Although modernity is praiseworthy for it has brought a plethora of desirables that surely transformed humanity in a big way, socially, religiously, economically and so on, on issues of slavery and slave trade there is nothing praiseworthy. The desirability of modernization cannot be wholly and gleefully accepted without a coordinated and research-backed ridicule if the issue of the subtlety continuance of slavery is considered. Contextually, the breaking point between ancient era and contemporary is seemingly in theory as the orthopraxis of human behavior proving otherwise; there was no break but continuity of these vices which intransigently took up the shape of each historical contexts from past into present and future so that they suit timeous social contexts. This article argues that slavery and slave trade did not end but morphed into socially, economically and politically contextualized desirables of each historical period overtime, notwithstanding the pretentious and fruitless efforts taken to end all these such as enactment of laws and public ridicules by the former perpetrator-countries. Slavery and slave trade were made to lurk deeply into the contemporary social discourses which are within the cocoons and sophistries of modernity but to the detriment of the poverty-stricken folks. The major point worth-noting is that in the 21st century, slavery and slave trade are insidiously present and they are found in the country to country diplomatic relations as well as between employer-employee engagements. This article also argues and calls it, modernized slave trade and slavery since they are imbued with the current contexts within the enclaves of socio-economic and political influences. The future looks gloomy as slavery is no longer open as it was in the 15th century; now it has been rebranded into acceptable, perfidious and subtle ways of living.