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Slaves-R-Us
Actually, that's Africa. Africa is the birthplace of slavery. Also, unfortunately, every major civilization was built on the backs of slaves.
I'm not saying that we either invented slavery or are unique in benefiting from it. We've written a loophole for prisoners to be used as slave labor into our constitution and have the highest number of prisoners of any nation, we have politicians actively trying to create new laws adding more slave labor, and we've tied healthcare to employment and left per-Capita income so low that insinuating that the people who put food on your table are slaves isn't as laughable as it seems.
The reason I suggested the name is that we're the only "advanced" civilization that still directly relies on slave labor. I know that there are examples of other non-third-world countries that consume goods and services from sweatshops, but, as one of the world-leaders in consumerism, we arguably fund and keep alive the demand that necessitates sweatshops.
So, no, we're not unique in our slavery—just in our ability and willingness to sexy it up and slap some paint and labels on it that help us perpetuate it.