It's grammatically correct but I'm not sure I understand. What do you mean by "faced"?
I wondered that, too.
Once again, tufguy, it's not clear what you want us to check — the grammar or the meaning.
Are you suggesting that you wish that India had accepted slavery?
No, I wanted to say that this shouldn't have happened to India.
Surely you mean that it shouldn't have happened in India? Are you talking about Indian people being used as slaves, or about Indian people using other people as slaves?
If you want to express regret that India had the institution of slavery, then "I wish India hadn't faced slavery" is incorrect.
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Hello, Tufguy:
As I tried to explain in your other thread about "slavery," I believe that it is inaccurate (from a language point of view) to say that Indians were "enslaved" by other nations.
We can discuss ONLY language here, so what I mean is that -- according to my poor knowledge of history -- Indians were "only" colonized by a European nation.
From a language point of view, "slavery" refers to the situation in the United States until the American Civil War.
From a language point of view, no such "slavery" ever occurred in India when it was under colonial rule.
Perhaps you wish to say something like: "I wish that India had never been colonized by a foreign country."
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