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Those laws only exist because people decided that slavery and child labour were bad things. We can decide that this kind of exploitation is bad too. (In fact,
by mattkevan 6y ago
Those laws only exist because people decided that slavery and child labour were bad things. We can decide that this kind of exploitation is bad too.
(In fact, the UK only finished paying reparations to slave-owners five years ago, 183 years after it was made illegal.)
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago> (In fact, the UK only finished paying reparations to slave-owners five years ago, 183 years after it was made illegal.) That is actually slightly incorrect. The UK borrowed money to pay the reparations to the slave-owners at the time of the abolition. They just finished paying off the loan a few years ago. So the people they were paying all this time was not necessarily the slave owners, but the descendants of the creditors who had loaned the money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Compensation_Act_1837 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Compensation_Act_1837
- mattkevan 6y agoAh that’s really interesting, thanks for the link.