Picture a timeline of all recorded history—nearly 4,000 years. In that time, some form of legalized slavery has existed in every country in the world. It is only when we zoom into the last 220 years on this historical timeline—a mere sliver of time—that we see nations have begun, one by one, to acknowledge the horrors of slavery and pass laws to abridge or curtail the slave trade and emancipate those affected by it.
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