Pre 20th Century
Niall Ferguson notes that during period in which Livingstone was in Africa, "though the slave trade in the west of the continent had supposedly been suppressed following the British abolition law, slaves continued to be exported from Central and East Africa to Arabia, Persia and India".
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“Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.”
—Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)