When in the year 1086 William The Conqueror ordered his Great Survey of England and Wales .. The Domesday Book - his tax inspectors concluded that some 10% of the English population were SLAVES. - Not that remarkable really - as even now it is generally usual for the rich & powerful to treat the lower orders as a resource of lesser beings that might be treated ... as stock?
I once knew an old outback man in Australia who's father had cleared the property with bullock teams (Ox) and fire .. when I asked what they did with the oxen that got too old to work - he smiled and answered "Well - put it this way - You don't fall in love with them". - Local Aboriginies were treated as wild predators of stock when their numbers rose ... I was shown cave paintings and bullet holes in the rock walls of a cliff shelter.
Only in 1827 were Spring-Guns and man-traps made illegal in England - up till then poachers, burglars, grave robbers and body snatchers needed a bright moonlight night to avoid a full charge of buckshot from a cemetery piece tripped by a web of wires ..
- A mere six years later in 1833 the British Parliament paid 20 Million Pounds Compensation to 3,000 slave-owning families for loss of their property when Slavery was abolished there. - If you are wondering how much that might be today ... the Government borrowed the equivalent of 16.2 billion Pounds that took the British tax-payers 182 years to pay back - making the final instalment just five years ago in 2015.
.. Of course the freed slaves received NO COMPENSATION.
English Man-Trap
The British National Trust now looks after many English Stately Home properties & says that around a third of their properties were built by slaving profiteers ..
In U S - where the Wall Street Stock Market was founded as a SLAVE MARKET ... the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing trade in slaves dates from the later time of 1865.
Marty K.
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