The Welsh Viking | There Were No Slaves in Britain? @TheWelshViking | Uploaded June 2020 | Updated October 2024, 21 hours ago.
Many people believe there were no enslaved people in the UK. It's true that the act of carrying out slavery in England was illegal for centuries before the slave trade was finally banned two hundred years ago, but there are newspaper ads, gravestones, and paintings that tell us that although slaves and slavery were much rarer, they were still sadly to be found in the UK.
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Sources on British slavery:
runaways.gla.ac.uk
hertsmemories.org.uk/content/herts-history/places/schools/francis-barber
research.ncl.ac.uk/expeditionresearchscholarships/postergalleries/2016posters/Sophie%20Oldham.pdf

Thumbnail: Francis Barber and Olaudah Equiano. Both enslaved and resident in the UK during the 18th century.

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