"Where I do not agree with Guest,# though is in believing that people ownership has gone away, that is alive and kicking, even in the UK."

I agree with you and thought I'd made that clear. Clumsy writing on my part if I left that impression. I'd meant I see the ownership coming into slavery on a broader scale, less individual. I may feel I don't own slaves, but the minute I buy stuff (chocolate from Sierra Leone for example) that is the product of slave labour is the minute I become an owner whether I care to call myself that or not.