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elderflower

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Registered: 2016-06-19

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Re: Big Bang, Slow Burn, Cold Comfort or "Hope for the Best"

Unfortunately, slavery has not been abolished. It still happens, but is generally illegal, so not public.
ISIL/DAESH would have brought it back to legality had it prevailed so we need to be thankful for it's defeat.

louis

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Registered: 2008-03-24

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Re: Big Bang, Slow Burn, Cold Comfort or "Hope for the Best"

Indeed - I could have been more exact...I meant where it has been genuinely abolished that was a mark of real progress.

Unfortunately, slavery has not been abolished. It still happens, but is generally illegal, so not public.
ISIL/DAESH would have brought it back to legality had it prevailed so we need to be thankful for it's defeat.

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