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SLAVERY
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Comment 2007 marked the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the UK Slave Trade Act. Further work and more legislation was needed before slavery was then actually abolished ….. or was it? Some argue that there is nothing like that dehumanising of whole people groups and the plunder of the human resources of specific countries as happened in the 1800s, and the legacy still remains in institutionalised racism in the west and the hindered development of African countries today. Others would argue that slavery still exists in the modern world and that more people are being bought and sold across continents and country borders than happened in the ‘Transatlantic Slave Trade’. However it is likely all would agree that neither are the correct way to treat human beings – both are evil. Professor Kevin Bales, President of Free the Slaves, argues that it is perfectly possible to end slavery throughout the world within 25 years and has published the plan in ‘Ending Slavery’. This will require political will, financial and human resources. Two hundred years after the successful campaign to stop a trade that many then argued could never be halted, it is time to make a renewed effort to eradicate slavery in the modern world.
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