It certainly seems hard to imagine a thriving slave trade happening in your village, for example, or some of the smaller towns here on the island. You can't sneeze in the garden without the entire village knowing about it, so it would be hard to keep a house full of slaves secret. Since, pretty much by definition, this is something that the authorities don't know about (or else they'd stop it), I imagine this expert is just guessing, or extrapolating from some large city.
(Though maybe they're all in Minions...)
(No, no, I know it's a terrible and serious topic. I really mustn't start getting amusing images of a particularly West Country brand of slavery... *slaps self hard*)
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Date: 2007-10-30 08:19 am (UTC)(Though maybe they're all in Minions...)
(No, no, I know it's a terrible and serious topic. I really mustn't start getting amusing images of a particularly West Country brand of slavery... *slaps self hard*)