Author : William Robert Brownlow
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ISBN 13 : 9781331817246
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (172 download)
Book Synopsis Lectures on Slavery and Serfdom in Europe (Classic Reprint) by : William Robert Brownlow
Download or read book Lectures on Slavery and Serfdom in Europe (Classic Reprint) written by William Robert Brownlow and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on Slavery and Serfdom in Europe Slavery in British Colonies. Slavery revived in 1442; Portuguese and Spaniards commenced negro slavery; Sir John Hawkins, the first English slave-dealer; Progress, continuance, and abolition of the slave trade; Sale of Spaniards in England. Slaves in Barbadoes in 1647; Sale of a slave related by Ligon; Ligon's account of Sambo who wished to be a Christian; Story of Yarico, sold into slavery by him whose life she saved; Sale of English and Irish into slavery by Cromwell; Thousands of Irish boys and women sold as slaves in est Indies; Twenty-five thousand Irish slaves in St. Kitts; Father Morison on sale of Irish young ladies; Slavery of political convicts made perpetual by Cromwell; Irish girls kidnapped and transported into Jamaica; The same practice continued under Charles II; English, Scotch, and Irish slaves in Barbadoes under James II; Rebels in Monmouth's rebellion sent as slaves by Judge Jeffreys; Henry Pitman's account of his own sufferings there; The Abolition or Slavery In Europe. 1. France; The chartulary of the Abbey of St. Bertin; The four chains of slavery which bound the serf; Emancipations from twelfth to fifteenth century. Their motives; Emancipations not always accepted; Village communes for mutual protection; Effect of Crusades on emancipation. Communities of serfs; Family communities in Croatia and Servia; Serfdom existed in some parts of France until 1789; 2. Germany. Horigen, or serfs, and leibeigener, or slaves; Emancipation slower in Germany than in France; The Peasants' War in the sixteenth century About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."