This is what actual, real slavery in the 21st century looks like

Two Eritrean teen-agers in 2019 telling their story to a journalist: 

"Thousands of migrants were held in hangars around the town. In Bani Walid, Even and Saeed (15 and 16) found out that the sponsors of their boat had sold them to an Eritrean trafficker known as Knife, who worked for a local Libyan kingpin. Knife is said to have been granted asylum in Canada, where he now owns a barber shop. In Libya he made a living from torturing migrants in order to extract money from their families. ‘Every morning you’re on a phone calling your family. You tell them: I’m dying, send me the money,’ Even told me. His mother sold her jewelry to pay the ransom of $4500. He calculated that since leaving Eritrea three years earlier, he had shelled out $11,500 to people smugglers and traffickers."

Libya’s refugees and detention centres – Martin Plaut