{"id":2463,"date":"2013-07-20T16:37:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T14:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2013-07-20T16:37:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T14:37:29","slug":"slavery-not-just-a-thing-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/20\/slavery-not-just-a-thing-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavery: not just a thing of the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<address><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i><a title=\"Pierre Lafollie\" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/pierre_lafollie.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-381 alignleft\" alt=\"Pierre_Lafollie\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/pierre_lafollie.jpg?resize=184%2C224\" width=\"184\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/pierre_lafollie.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/pierre_lafollie.jpg?resize=247%2C300&amp;ssl=1 247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a>By <b>Pierre Lafollie M.Afr<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address><strong>Published in the Saturday Post, Saturday 20 July 2013 <\/strong><\/address>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>When the White Fathers arrived in the north of Zambia in 1891 they discovered that the slave trade was still thriving in spite of having been abolished by many countries. Their reports, together with other witnesses coming from different parts of Africa, prompted their founder, Cardinal Charles Lavigerie, to launch an antislavery campaign whose 125<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary is being celebrated this year. But the fight is far from over since slavery is still with us.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/p1090118.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2646 alignright\" alt=\"P1090118\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/p1090118.jpg?resize=228%2C330\" width=\"228\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/p1090118.jpg?w=634&amp;ssl=1 634w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/p1090118.jpg?resize=208%2C300&amp;ssl=1 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a>The White Fathers in Northern Zambia<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i><span style=\"color:#000000;\">When Brazil abolished slavery in 1888, it was the last Western country to do so. Thus, when the first Missionaries of Africa (popularly known as the White Fathers) settled in July 1891 at Mambwe Mwela, along today\u2019s Tanzania &#8211; Zambia border, the Western slave trade had ended since its market, essentially across the Atlantic, had disappeared and the slaves had already been freed. In this corner of Africa though, the missionaries arrived in a country devastated by a still active campaign of slave raiding. <a title=\"Slavery: not just a thing of the past\" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/postarticle2_lafollie.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/span> <\/i><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Pierre Lafollie M.Afr Published in the Saturday Post, Saturday 20 July 2013 When the White Fathers arrived in the north of Zambia in 1891 they discovered that the slave trade was still thriving in spite of having been abolished by many countries. 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