Slavery In England Research Articles

The Character of Difference: The Creole Woman as Cultural Mediator in Narratives About Jamaica

ACCORDING TO PETER FRYER'S Staying Power, The History of Black People in Britain, England's large-scale literary and cultural attention to problems of slavery and race took place between the late 1760s and the French Revolution.' In Fryer's construction the discourse of race' is a discourse born of the abolition movement, with questions of racial difference responding to the struggle to end slavery in England and her colonies. While Fryer's history is particularly useful in showing the cultural origins of English racism as a response to this mass political movement, he does not address the ways in which ideologies of race are related to ideologies of gender and sexuality. And while others have argued that the articulation of overlapping racial and sexual ideologies develops later, as a product of Victorian science2 eighteenth-century narratives about

Black slaves and English liberty: A re‐examination of racial slavery in England

Blacks in eighteenth‐century England were caught in a half‐way stage between colonial slavery and English domestic servitude, and out of the ambiguities of their position they were able to alter their status. Consequently slavery came to an end in England between the 1760s and the 1790s, not from the Somerset Case in 1772, nor from the Act of Parliament in 1833, but from the escape of the slaves themselves. Certain institutional elements, namely the traditions of household servitude, a popular libertarian political culture, and the ideology of the rule of law, provided a climate conducive to black resistance. Nonetheless, the initiative for ending slavery, the force which brought the institutional elements into play, came from individual members of the black community.

Slave raiding and slave trading in early England

Slaves were an integral and numerically important part of English society in the Anglo-Saxon period. They appear in the earliest English law code promulgated between 597 and 616 by Æthelberht of Kent; nearly half a millennium later at the beginning of the Norman age their continued widespread presence in English society is attested by Domesday Book. Yet they do not seem to have excited much attention from scholars. The longest treatment in print remains that by Kemble, which was written over a century ago. Stenton in his magisterial survey of Anglo-Saxon England made only four references to them. Some other recent histories, however, have discussed slavery in more detail. Professor Whitelock rightly included slaves in her analysis of the social classes of England up to the time of the Norman Conquest. H. P. R. Finberg took this further in his agrarian history of Anglo-Saxon England by dividing the society into three chronological periods and examining the regional variations within England during those periods. Both works mention the slave trade. This receives a more detailed discussion in H. R. Loyn's economic and social history. But the evidence on slavery in England is mostly fragmentary and in widely scattered sources. Inevitably general histories of the period but skim the surface. Only by patiently assembling all the evidence, as Professor Verlinden has been doing for many years in his studies on slavery in continental Europe, can knowledge about this significant element in English society be advanced.

Slavery in England

Slavery in England

Slavery in England

Slavery in England

Slavery in England

Slavery in England

Slavery in England: An account of the manner in which Persons without Trial are condemned to Imprisonment for Life, with illustrative cases. An Eye Witness. London: W. H. Guest. 1876.

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Slavery in England

Journal Article Slavery in England Get access Edward F. Rimbault Edward F. Rimbault Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s2-II, Issue 36, 6 September 1856, Page 187, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s2-II.36.187a Published: 06 September 1856

Slavery in England

Slavery in England

Dutch East India Company.—Slavery in England

Dutch East India Company.—Slavery in England