Slavery was a well-established institution in Anglo-Saxon England and it continued to flourish even after the coming of the Normans. According to the Domesday Book, based on information collected in 1086, about a tenth of the English population were slaves (Trevelyn, 1942). Slaves were at that time acquired by traders across the whole of England and then transported to Bristol to be sold at the market there for export to other countries, principally Ireland (Rodgers, 2007). A contemporary writer described the scene at the Bristol slave market in the early eleventh century; You could see and
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