Thu, Mar 22, 2007 - Page 15 News List

Britain confronts legacyof African slave trade

In exhibitions in London and Liverpool, Britain reassesses some uncomfortable truths about its role in the slave trade

By Alan Riding  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , LONDON

Along with spotlighting the past, the campaign also hopes to draw attention to new forms of slavery, whether in remote parts of Africa, Latin America and the Middle East or closer to home where immigrant women are forced into prostitution. A photography exhibition at St. Paul's Cathedral through March 29, Slave Britain: The 21st Century Trade in Human Lives, holds up just such a mirror to Britain today.

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