Auch nicht uninteressant:
Slavery
How come an anti-slavery law was passed this year when everyone knows slavery was abolished centuries ago?
Text: Mat Coward / Images: Hunt Emerson
July 2010
The mythSlavery was abolished in Britain in 1807 (or 1833, or 1834).
The “truthâ€
Holding a person in slavery became illegal in the UK on 6 April 2010. Nineteenth-century legislation made slavery illegal, in stages, throughout the British Empire, but the status of slave had never existed under English common law.
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