I get really annoyed with television programs or films that assimilate the past to us. The thing is, what I find interesting about the past is its difference. It's almost that we can't believe Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she was 18 years old unless you had some kind of experience of monsters. Nigel: We have to take on board the fact that slavery and trading in slaves was a universal institution, almost from the dawn of time.

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