An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

Re:An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost ... by ben_jones on Saturday May 28, 2016 @10:47PM (#11794537)

Slavery is still going on. All the scandals in England? A lot of that was sex slavery.

For the life of me I don't get how society honestly thinks "Oh ~50-200 years ago humanity was evil but now we're enlightened and good"...

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Re:An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost ... by peteretep on Saturday May 28, 2016 @10:57PM (#11794561)

    > All the scandals in England?
    > A lot of that was sex slavery.

What?

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Re:An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost ... by Hondor on Sunday May 29, 2016 @03:59AM (#11795440)

Here's recent labor slavery in Scotland

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/may/28/sl...

The victims feared being killed if they escaped back to their homes, so I'd say it's more than just "wage slavery".

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Re:An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost ... by duncan_bayne on Saturday May 28, 2016 @11:09PM (#11794594)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...

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Re:An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost ... by peteretep on Saturday May 28, 2016 @11:46PM (#11794661)

Conflating child abuse and the subsequent government cock-up in to investigating it, with an institutionalised implementation of slavery with the full weight of the judiciary behind it, requires quite some imagination.

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Re:An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost ... by duncan_bayne on Sunday May 29, 2016 @12:35AM (#11794806)

Sure; I'm not agreeing with his position, just supplying the background.

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