Reuters: W African slavery lives on 400 years after transatlantic trade began - "40 million people trapped in forced labor" - Interesting that endlessly vilified whites outlawed slavery first--England even attempting to stamp it out within Africa --tma

LAGOS (Reuters) - Blessing was only six years old when her mother arranged for her to become an unpaid housemaid for a family in the Nigerian city of Abuja, on the promise they would put her through school.

In her home town in southwest Nigeria, her mother had trouble making enough money to feed her three children. But when Blessing arrived in Abuja, instead of going to school, the family worked her round-the-clock, beat her with an electrical wire if she forgot one of her chores and fed her rotten leftovers. ...

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