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Thursday 17 March 2011

Slave to literature, slave for real!

My masters class is currently looking at the slave trade in 19th century Britain, and so I was very interested to stumble upon this article, about a modern day slave.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/17/slave-wins-case-hospital-director

Just goes to show that even texts from over a hundred years ago, by writers such as Gaskell and Mary Prince, still have relevance today.

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