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Domestic Slavery

  • 08-11-2009 10:51pm
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    JupiterKid
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    I was reading a Ruth Rendell book called Simisola. It turned my stomach to read of how a wealthy English family brought a young black girl over from the Middle East to England to work 16 hours a day essentially as a slave for no money. She was forced to sleep on a mattress in a room by the kitchen like a dog.:mad:

    The father and elder son of the family beat her severely and raped her frequently too.:mad: Now in case you think that this is just sordid fantasy on Rendell's part, there are actually a number of very sad and proven cases of wealthy white families callously treating their domestic servants, usually black, Filipina or Eastern European, like slaves - very long hours for little or no pay, being kept a prisoner in the house, being denied proper food and much of this is driven by racism, bigotry, greed and classism.

    It's more widespread than you think.:(


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