Extinction of Villenage and Slavery in England
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Excerpt from Extinction of Villenage and Slavery in England: With Somerset´s Case It seems but a fitting complement to the articles which have been read from time to time before the Historical Society, upon the condition of the slave, and the extinction of slavery in Massachusetts, to say something of the institution in England, and when and how it ceased to exist there. The subject in itself is interesting; and it borrows, moreover, considerable interest from the fact, that the courts of Massachusetts have fully kept pace with those of England in holding that the common law of both was and is hostile to the existence of slavery in any form. What, at first sight, might seem to be a little remarkable, is, that while it is, at a certain time, assumed that slavery does not and cannot exist in England, the history of a thousand years shows that it was once an existing institution there; and no statute can be traced, abolishing or declaring it unlawful. It is, moreover, a singular fact, that historians do not agree when or how it took its rise, or when or how, in one form, it ceased to exist there; but that it did prevail, first in the form of villenage, and afterwards in that of modern negro slavery, is notorious as an historical fact. 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.
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