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Re:Enslaved and then marooned on Tromelin Island for fifteen... by eberkund on Monday May 14, 2018 @07:19PM (#17070282)
How is that not accurate? Renting out a room for someone to live in is legal but in some places it isn't illegal to do so without the proper zoning and/or permits. Therefore you would call someone doing that "illegally renting".
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Re:Enslaved and then marooned on Tromelin Island for fifteen... by AnimalMuppet on Monday May 14, 2018 @07:31PM (#17070355)
Because "enslaving" refers to the action of making someone a slave, not to the action of shipping someone who was already a slave to a new location. That's "illegally shipped", not "illegally enslaved".
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Re:Enslaved and then marooned on Tromelin Island for fifteen... by solsticedev on Monday May 14, 2018 @08:10PM (#17070554)
Agreed on this point, although I also find the terminology of "legally enslaved" to be poor as I'm sure the enslaved people themselves did not give credence to that law.
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