كانت العبودية في بريطانيا العظمى موجودة قبل الاحتلال الروماني وحتى القرن الثاني عشر، عندما اختفت العبودية المتوارثة، على الأقل لبعض الوقت، بعد الغزو النورماندي. اندمج العبيد الأصليين السابقين في المجموعة الأكبر من القنانة (هو وضع اجتماعي اقتصادي لطبقة الفلاحين في ظل الإقطاع) في بريطانيا ولم يعد يُعترف بهم بشكل منفصل في القوانين أو الأعراف. (ar)
Slavery in Britain existed before the Roman occupation and until the 11th century, when the Norman conquest of England resulted in the gradual merger of the pre-conquest institution of slavery into serfdom, and all slaves were no longer recognised separately in English law or custom. By the middle of the 12th century, the institution of slavery as it had existed prior to the Norman conquest had fully disappeared, but other forms of unfree servitude continued for some centuries. British merchants were a significant force behind the Atlantic slave trade between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, but no legislation was ever passed in England that legalised slavery. In the Somerset case of 1772, Lord Mansfield ruled that, as slavery was not recognised by English law, James Somerset, a slave who had been brought to England and then escaped, could not be forcibly sent to Jamaica for sale, and he was set free. In Scotland colliery slaves were still in use until 1799 where an act was passed which established their freedom and made this slavery and bondage illegal. An influential abolitionist movement grew in Britain during the 18th and 19th century, until the Slave Trade Act 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but it was not until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that the institution of slavery was abolished completely. Despite being illegal, modern slavery still exists in Britain, as elsewhere, often following human trafficking from poorer countries, but also frequently targeting UK nationals. (en)
Slaveri förekom i det senare England på de brittiska öarna från före den romerska erövringen under antiken till medeltiden, då den minskade efter den normandiska erövringen av England 1066, och uppgick i den engelska livegenskapen under 1100-talet och försvann som separat från livegenskapen i engelsk lag. Under 1500-talet återupptogs slavhandeln då England blev en deltagare i triangelhandeln, men slaveri som sådant utövades inte i själva England, där det betraktades som förbjudet, utan endast i dess kolonier. (sv)
كانت العبودية في بريطانيا العظمى موجودة قبل الاحتلال الروماني وحتى القرن الثاني عشر، عندما اختفت العبودية المتوارثة، على الأقل لبعض الوقت، بعد الغزو النورماندي. اندمج العبيد الأصليين السابقين في المجموعة الأكبر من القنانة (هو وضع اجتماعي اقتصادي لطبقة الفلاحين في ظل الإقطاع) في بريطانيا ولم يعد يُعترف بهم بشكل منفصل في القوانين أو الأعراف. (ar)
Slaveri förekom i det senare England på de brittiska öarna från före den romerska erövringen under antiken till medeltiden, då den minskade efter den normandiska erövringen av England 1066, och uppgick i den engelska livegenskapen under 1100-talet och försvann som separat från livegenskapen i engelsk lag. Under 1500-talet återupptogs slavhandeln då England blev en deltagare i triangelhandeln, men slaveri som sådant utövades inte i själva England, där det betraktades som förbjudet, utan endast i dess kolonier. (sv)
Slavery in Britain existed before the Roman occupation and until the 11th century, when the Norman conquest of England resulted in the gradual merger of the pre-conquest institution of slavery into serfdom, and all slaves were no longer recognised separately in English law or custom. By the middle of the 12th century, the institution of slavery as it had existed prior to the Norman conquest had fully disappeared, but other forms of unfree servitude continued for some centuries. (en)