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They definitely did. Chattel slavery for example was never legal in the British isles, but was permitted in the colonies.
by carnitine 5y ago
They definitely did. Chattel slavery for example was never legal in the British isles, but was permitted in the colonies.
- falkrr 5y agoIt does not help if there was no legislation but 10% of the (white) population were slaves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Britain#Norman_England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Britain#Norman_Engl... I'm also not sure if being a white coal miner in 1870 in Britain would have been much better than the jobs in the colonies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold,_Flintshire#The_Mold_Riot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold,_Flintshire#The_Mold_Riot