> as someone wrote earlier, no person alive was ever a slave They may have written this, but it is strikingly false. By most accounts, there are hundreds of t

> as someone wrote earlier, no person alive was ever a slave They may have written this, but it is strikingly false. By most accounts, there are hundreds of thousands of people alive today living as slaves in Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_contemporary_Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_contemporary_Africa Not quite on point, but here's a great Atlantic article from a couple years ago about someone who realizes late in life that his family had a slave: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-s...