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Sat 03 Mar 2007Our collective memory has blanked out slaveryCultureShock:We have forgotten that St Patrick was a slave, that slavery was practised here until recently and that the sex industry is its modern incarnationA few years ago, when I was researching my book White Savage, I received a shocking reminder of something I had barely considered.