Modern Morality vs Game Setting

[Cleretic]

Slavery is a weird one in the setting because we see it referenced a lot, but rarely see it in practice. Ul'dah seems to practice some kind of debt-based slavery as punishment for crimes, and you can become a gladiatorial slave as a way to pay off you debts too. Limsa regards slavery as illegal and Yellowjackets root it out when they can, but pirates do participate in some kind of black market slave trade (where are the slaves being taken is unclear).

Garlemald seems to have slaves, though it is interesting that the practice appears to be kept away from people in the ordinary core. Provincial Governors appear to employ slaves, but in Garlemald proper the only slaves were tucked away in Cerulea Ingens and put to work there.

There's also evidence of it in Kugane, and most overtly, Yotsuyu was sold into it (after Garlean occupation of Doma, so it's hard to say if that's 'Garlean slavery' or 'Doman slavery'). That last one I see people struggle with every so often, as Hien's reaction to the whole situation... well, it has a lot less anger towards the actual slave-owner than a fair few modern people are comfortable with. To a degree, rightly so, but it's indicative of the people in the story having a markedly different cultural perspective than the people consuming that story.