Britain Reintroduces Slavery

A troubling story out of Britain from the Telegraph. It isn't the British government that is reintroducing it, it is criminal gangs. But it is a very scary thing.  A gang in Britain forced a man from eastern Europe into slavery, making him work in farm fields harvesting crops. The man was kept in a house, forced to work and denied even a change of clothing.

A starving man who was held as a slave has been freed by police.

The 22-year-old, believed to be the first human slave to be found in Britain since the trade was abolished 200 years ago, was duped into leaving his home in Eastern Europe.

The man had been forced to work long hours picking vegetables for the past year.

He was made to hand over his wages to the gang holding him and was even denied a change of clothes.

In a scene described as being from the Dark Ages, police discovered the bedraggled and hungry man in a house in Peterborough, Cambs, last week.

It is believed he was lured to the city with the promise of a good job and a better life.

His rescue comes as detectives, working on Operation Radium, hunt human traffickers who are forcing foreign women into the sex industry.

There are fears that more people could be being held against their will.

In 1807 the British outlawed the slave trade and unilaterally imposed that ban on the world's oceans. (Britain did not actually outlaw slavery itself until 1833.) The Royal Navy clamped down on slave traders, stopping and searching ships to ensure they were not trafficking in human slaves. Slavery is rearing its ugly head again - even in the nation that helped stop it 200 years ago.

It does not help that American politicians are advancing a form of human serfdom. Not outright slavery, not bonding the serfs to the land but rather forcing them to work for a specific business sector for a period of years. If it stinks like bondage…..