keeping a slave in the uk.

[mollykins]

I was surprised to hear last night on QI that it wasn't illegal to keep and slave in the uk until earlier this year.

But how would you have obtained one if kidnap and people trafficing etc were illegal anyway?

[ummmm]

You can get them from the Slave shop...

In some countries there isn't really any difference between and servant and a slave. Wealthy families bring their 'staff' with them.

[sara3]

it's illegal to hold someone against their will, so I would think we're talking servant rather than slave.

[mollykins]

MAybe they weren't exactly holding people against their will, but maybe they wouldn't survive for what ever reason if they ran away.

[bibblebub]

slave was definitely the subject (excuse the pun)

[mollykins]

Or they'd get deported and have to live in the slums of some third world country but at least being a 'servant' you have a roof over your head.

[mollykins]

I supose so helen, isn't that why people say, 'it's better to die a free man than live as a slave' ?

[ummmm]

That would be why Molly..!

[DrFilth]

this is from 1999 but you will find a more recent article on the net, people are still kept as slaves to this day

http://www.guardian.c...4/theobserver.uknews5

one massage parlour was raided in manchester recently and some young ladies were fnally set free

[mollykins]

It was only made illegal in the uk in about april this year I think Steven said.

[ummmm]

Like Sara said...it's been illegal to hold someone against their will for a long time.

[DrFilth]

redhelen it is true and it happens people should know about this kind of thing.
my i add not all who work in the parlours are forced.
one 18 year old not very far away from me works 2 x 12 hour shifts every week and makes £1200 a day tax free

[ummmm]

Not if your married :-)

[bibblebub]

The whole point of that part of QI was that most people, including some posters here, think that slavery has been illegal for many years whereas it was never taken off the statute books until this year.

[bibblebub]

Or, perhaps more accurately, was made illegal this year.

[DrFilth]

bibblebub if that is true this man will be turning in his grave

Wilberforce supported the campaign for the complete abolition of slavery, and continued his involvement after 1826, when he resigned from Parliament because of his failing health. That campaign led to the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which abolished slavery in most of the British Empire; Wilberforce died just three days after hearing that the passage of the Act through Parliament was assured. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to his friend William Pitt.