<p dir="ltr">The United States operates a modern slavery system that generates billions in profits while violating international law, exploiting families, and perpetuating racial inequality. This exhaustive investigation reveals a web of corporate profiteering, political corruption, and human rights violations so extensive that defending this system becomes morally and legally indefensible. Through examination of UN reports, corporate documents, federal data, whistleblower testimonies, and suspicious deaths, we document an unbroken chain of exploitation from 1704 slave patrols to today's mass incarceration system that the UN has formally condemned as "contemporary slavery."</p>