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EIGHT disabled South Korean men who spent decades working as slaves on salt farms sued the government yesterday over negligence and inaction that prolonged their ordeal.
The plaintiffs, who have varying levels of disabilities, were enslaved on rural islands off South Korea’s south-west coast for as many as 20 years.
More than 60 slaves, most of them mentally ill, were rescued following an inquiry led by mainland police last year.
ELLIS RAE recommends a stunning history of the active role played by the British monarchy in establishing and profiting from slavery
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
SUE TURNER is appalled by the story of the only original colonising family to still own a plantation in the West Indies