Academically speaking, ignorance and illiteracy is a huge problem among the forced labored workers. ... The term forced labor has been defined by the human right convention as "All the work or service which is extracted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself/Her self voluntarily". ...

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The medieval manorialism fostered illiteracy and ignorance and a very narrow view of the outside world, people did not question their place, the church, or the need to prepare for the after life. ... Humanism is thought to be the most significant and defining intellectual and literary movement of the Renaissance. ... This, later in life, would dominate his writing in which his sonnets, written in vernacular Italian, would help define Italian as an accepted language. ...

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