Scars of slavery-1: No one wanted to marry the colonel’s crippled daughter, so he handed her over to the roughest slave
Eulália had married the colonel five years prior – an ambitious widow who saw Violeta as an obstacle to her own plans. She had two children from her first marriage and always made it clear that Violeta was an unwanted nuisance.
Neo-slavery: Ugandan court commits woman to prison for breaking promise to marry teacher who financed her education
A woman in western Uganda has been sentenced to six months in prison after failing to honour a promise to marry a man who financed her education with the understanding that they would eventually wed. The woman, Fortunate Kyarikunda, was jailed after failing to comply with an earlier court order...
