England never had slaves in their country correct?

Question

I used to know this but forgot didn't England not ever have slaves on its soil?

Answer 1

Wrong. Slaves were emancipated through the British Parliament only in 1834 the British Government paid compensation to slave owners.

Answer 2

The Brits abhorred slavery. The reason the emancipation proclamation was delivered by Lincoln was to keep England from jumping into the war on the side of the south. Licoln made it about slavery so England could not morally justify aiding the rebellion.
The war was, in fact, over cotton. The new england textile mills in the north were going bankrupt because they couldn't get cotton. The reason they couldn't get cotton was because the south was getting better prices selling the cotton to England. The US government enacted tarrifs, but the cotton kept getting smuggled out, which the US gov't responded by placing a naval blockade around the ports. The blockade was attacked at Fort Sumnter, SC and the rest is history.

Answer 3

Incorrect. Various invaders used slaves just as in America.
The Romans kept slaves until the 5th century. Then when England was conquered by the Norman french in 1066 they made many of the indiginous population into slaves.
This was formalised as the feudal system where the serfs could be punished by their lord and master and were bound to them for life.
The present monarchy and aristocracy are a relic of that system

Answer 4

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Answer 5

At the time that the US kept slaves, England was against slavery. That does not mean, that in their history that they did not keep slaves. They may have kept slaves, that were POW's from the Crusades.

Answer 6

They definitely did - first Celts were enslvaved by Romans, then Normans (I think they were called 'Thralls'). During the period of African slavery relatively few were taken to England compared to the Americas but they definitely were there.

Answer 7

no they did not - but they themselves were slaves of the romans two thousand years ago - hence the name Anglo

the romans called the english slaves Angels because they were so fair and blonde -

Answer 8

Celts[Irish,Scots,Welsh]

Answer 9

Of course they had, if not what they did with the captured in wars.

Answer 10

they had slavery, just gave it up prior to 1865. read "roots"