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RT Tom Rowsell (@Tom_Rowsell)In 1640, Parliament established the Committee for Algiers to oversee the purchase of enslaved English people to be brought home. Eg. Edmund Cason’s 1646 mission to Algiers, funded by parliamentary resources, freed approximately 250 English slaves.We can and should use public money to find and free English girls who have been trafficked abroad. Even military action is justified. ...