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Are you seriously conflating getting all of your relatives killed in a raid and you being captured to be shipped overseas to be treated like an animal for the r

Are you seriously conflating getting all of your relatives killed in a raid and you being captured to be shipped overseas to be treated like an animal for the rest of your life - with getting married within the commnunity where you were born and raised??

lmm 3y ago
Forced marriage is generally recognised as slavery, and very common even today, and in many of these communities every woman was de facto forced to marry.
- thriftwy 3y ago
  And every man, too. If you conflate these two options, though, it does not make sense to discuss anything with you.