Slavery

[bunn]

Last night on the local news, some person who had 'written a musical about slavery' said 'there are more people in slavery now than at the height of the Atlantic slave trade' and that 'there are slaves in every town and city in the UK'.

Can this possible be true? I know human trafficking exists, and is a terrible thing, but surely this has to be on a much smaller scale, given that it is illegal?

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[bunn.livejournal.com]

Yes I looked at their site. Possibly I am cynical due to my extreme mistrust of numbers of all kinds, but I have become particularly cynical about numbers that include the word 'million' but refer to things that seem like they would be extremely easy to mis-represent by lots either way, and are basically uncheckable....

Hum.