It 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 htt

It 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