My last posting seems to have gone astray
I have never entereed into a slanging match with Keith over the relative demerits of one type of slavery or another - on the contrary, I have pointed out that there is no difference; not my thing to offset one type of oppression against another.
I have, and will continue to bridle at the suggestion that the lot of 'White Slaves' were different in any way than any other group os slaves - "slaves are slaves", black, white purple..... and or nations has as dirty hands as any other.
As you say, slavery is still very much with us to the tune of nearly 30 million human beings, and the wealthier nations capitalise on that fact if we buy our cheap shirts from Primark and our trainers from Aldi and Lidl
Jim Carroll