1. The Origin of Negro Slavery -- 2. The Development of the Negro Slave Trade -- 3. British Commerce and the Triangular …. "The Commercial Part of the Nation" and Slavery -- 11. The "Saints" and Slavery -- 12. The Slaves and Slavery -- 13 …"Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected …

Most scholars who have written about the law of slavery in England have focused on Somerset’s case of 1772, which had … consensus is that the Common Law was somewhat confused, but that a kind of slavery was basically legal in England before 1772 …, and certainly in its empire, where English law on slavery did not reach. England was committed to a free society, but …

system over the legality of slavery in England and its empire over more than a century. Not only was the Common Law on … slavery changing profoundly during the seventeenth century; it was an instrument of policy. When Charles II failed to pass an … imperial slave code via Parliament, he turned to the courts. This controversy over slavery in the Common Law was intimately …

can see and hear as historians. I will argue that Godwyn probably died for criticizing slavery in a world where the name … condemnation of the slave trade (at Westminster Abbey, in London in 1685), a sermon he then had published-- essentially accused … histories. Consequently we have failed to see how extensively slavery was debated before 1775, partly because we have not been …