For me, 12 Years a Slave offered too many modern parallels for the 175th birthday of Anti-Slavery International of which I am a proud patron to prompt anything other than renewed effort
It was 175 years ago, on 17 April 1839, that a group of abolitionists gathered to found the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Today that organisation is known as Anti-Slavery International; it is the oldest international human rights organisation in the world, and I am proud to be a patron.
At the time the society was founded, slavery had just been abolished in the British colonies and the plan was to campaign for the abolition of slavery in the rest of the world. But the founders soon realised that the formal abolition of slavery did not prevent people being forced to work against their will.
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