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FlashbackRead a Book, Gamble With Your Life
African slaves, Victorian housewives and Afghani schoolgirls: All have been banned from reading and writing. So why is literacy so terrifying?
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Brazil led the world in tackling modern slavery — until special interests began to get their way.
