'Tied accommodation' - come from overseas and work for us and we'll house you until you even try to think about leaving - has been going on for YEARS. I know of two large englandshire registered companies who were doing it up in Scotland even though both had Modern Slavery philosophies in their brochures. I'm talking 15 years ago.
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This shit is RIFE where I live. Twenty delivery bikes permanently parked up on corner of our street. Drivers are kackered, dirty and living from delivery to delivery. Tied into bike + accommodation slavery in return for a cut of their take.
I was told by a shopkeeper that a local shitbag landlord is housing ten of them in the windowless basement of a vacant shop.
A church of Scotland was receiving donation money from slavery and even refused to apologise for such sinful offence. Ironic isn't it?
The Free Church of Scotland has been accused of “shameful” behaviour after it refused to apologise for receiving money from slavery worth millions of pounds today.
'The rediscovery of a long-forgotten slave narrative would be notable enough. But this one, scholars who have seen it say, is unique for its global perspective and its uncensored fury, from a man living far outside the trans-Atlantic network of white abolitionists who often limited what the formerly enslaved could write about their experiences.'
Rather than boosting a screenshot of a social media post of someone else talking about but not linking to an artist's work, I've looked up the artist and the work and am linking you to more details.
It is from Yale itself, so you should of course read it critically. But it has more detail and context that is important to Kaphar's transformative work.