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slash UK slash AI for people. This act was supposed to be anti-slavery, or at the very least make life easier for enslaved Africans.

But then things backfired, and this history actually teaches us a valuable lesson today.

This is Two-Minute Black History, What You didn't learn in school.

In 1788, abolitionist William Dolpin proposed a slave trade regulation act to limit how many Africans,

especially children, could be transported on ships to restrict the trade overall. One ship went from crowding 609 enslaved people to 454. But something terrible also happened.

Slavers found a loophole, deciding that teenagers didn't count as children.

So, more youth filled the ships, and disturbingly, enslavers then argued the benefits of breeding

African people instead of buying them.

The lesson here, regulating a fundamentally inhumane practice

will never be as liberating as just ending it. That's easy to understand in hindsight when

talking about slavery. Obviously no one should be enslaved, but what about other systems?

Today, many draw connections between enslavement

and the prison system, but in the same vein, reforms without the end goal of ending prison don't get to

the root of the problem. For instance, closing prisons without reducing incarceration and improving violence prevention,

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