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Enslavement

People with baskets and sacks pick cotton on a plantation. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot
Used under Creative Commons CC-BY-4.0 licence.
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This page will include the stories of those women whose lives were touched by enslavement, either as enslavers or the enslaved.
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In the meantime, here are some resources for this topic:
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The Legacy of British Slave-ownership Database
Slavery and British Country Houses
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