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?

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

yes, I feel that somehow a state sanctioned system of enslavement should have a different word.

Like, selling illegal drugs is 'the drugs trade' and selling legal ones is a tobacconist or an off licence. Well not quite, but something like that.