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Slave children

Slavery is not a term normally associated with Switzerland. But that is how many historians have described a widespread practice during the nineteenth century, and which continued until the 1940s: selling off children to work on farms and in factories. Apart from working hard for no pay, these children were often beaten and sexually abused, all under the gaze of the Swiss authorities. Swiss Radio International’s Vanessa Mock reports.

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