Lectures on Slavery and Serfdom in Europe

by William Robert Brownlow

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
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319 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1892

About the author

William Robert Bernard Brownlow (a.k.a. W.R. Brownlow) graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1852. He became an Anglican minister, but converted to Catholicism in 1863 and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1866. He served as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Clifton from 1894 to his death in 1901.