Things like the Ladybird book which is quoted above, together with a greater familiarity with Old Testament bible stories than is now common, meant that those growing up in the 1960s had no narrow view of what constituted slavery or the slave trade. From David Livingstone’s experiences in the nineteenth century to the selling of the Old Testament character Joseph into slavery by his brothers, slavery was understood to be an ancient custom, practised across the world at different times, that had now fallen into disuse. We see in Illustration 7 some black African slaves and the Africans who have
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