How Britain Ends: English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations

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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.

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In 1807, the British Parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. This ended the buying and selling of enslaved people within the British Empire, but it did not protect those already enslaved. Many enslavers continued to trade illegally. Gavin Esler is an award winning television and radio broadcaster, novelist and journalist. He is the author of five novels and two non-fiction books, The United States of Anger, and most recently Lessons from the Top, a study of how leaders tell stories to make other people follow them. It’s based on personal encounters with a wide variety of leaders, from Bill Clinton and Angela Merkel to Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, and even cultural leaders such as Dolly Parton.

Drescher, Seymour. Econocide: British slavery in the era of abolition (U of North Carolina Press, 2010). She looked so sorrowful and so strong. She would stand up for herself, so she would. She wouldn’t t … How politicised grievance in England and a surging Scottish nationalism are fraying the liberal fibres of the Union. Bradley K, etal. (29 November 2014). "Modern slavery strategy". GOV.UK. Home Office. ISBN 9781474112789. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 August 2020.

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Lindert, Peter H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. (September 2012). "American Incomes 1774–1860" (PDF). NBER Working Paper Series No. 18396. doi: 10.3386/w18396. S2CID 153965760. Freeman, Richard (1826). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of King's Bench (2ed.). London: S. Sweet and Stevens and Sons. p.451.That started to change in 2014 though with the Scottish Independence Referendum and it was won narrowly by those wishing to remain a part of the Union. Part of what helped that was the promise that the UK would remain part of the EU. Two years later, partly as a response to the rise of UKIP in local elections and to placate a section of the Conservative party that had lurched to the right, the Prime Minister of the time called a Referendum about our place in the EU. We voted to leave by the narrow margin of 52% versus 48% and from that moment on the union was under threat. In Esler’s eyes, this was the point where the rise of English nationalism became a real threat to the union rather than just a low-level concern. Toussaint Louverture: In Saint-Domingue I led the fight for our freedom from French oppression and enslavement, but also for the recognition that we were equal to the Europeans. Our struggle inspired others around the world that they too could be free from the slave trade and colonial control. Agitation saw a series of judgments repulse the tide of slavery. In Smith v. Gould (1705–07) 2 Salk 666, John Holt stated that by "the common law no man can have a property in another". (See the "infidel rationale".)

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Britishness, Henderson and Wyn Jones conclude, does not mean the same thing in England, Scotland and Wales. Those in England who are most explicitly nationalist about the British state are those whose identity is English, not – as we might expect – those who identify as British. Overt Britishness in England is, it transpires, a more liberal phenomenon, largely unrelated to Britishness in Scotland and Wales, which aligns more closely with the values of English nationalists. However, while the act abolished the trade in enslaved people, it did not end the use of enslaved labour across the British Empire. Plantation owners were still able to use their existing enslaved labour force.How Britain Ends is a book about history, but also about the strange, complicated identity of Britishness. In the past, it was possible to live with delightful confusion: one could be English, or British, Scottish or Irish and a citizen/subject of the United Kingdom (or Great Britain). For years that state has been what Gavin Esler calls a 'secret federation', but without the explicit federal arrangements that allow Germany or the USA to survive. Learn more about the campaigns to end slavery in Britain, and how the legacies of enslavement still shape the world around us today. He makes no attempt to conceal that he is a Remainer, turned Rejoiner. Whilst many have moved on from that question, the author hasn't. This is where his condescension shows through. He fails to understand the emotional base of the Leave vote and refuses to accept that his cause lost the day. In essence, he is not a democrat when the vote goes against him. I found this to be an extremely disappointing book. It contains a couple of good ideas, and a whole plethora of bad ones. It's not particularly well written and - despite the author parading his Scottishness and Irishness - it suffers from the worst sort of English disease - condescension. An estranged English nationalism found its voice in the Brexit referendum of 2016, but the campaign also gave expression to some of its Anglo-British ambiguities. Although the Daily Mail famously asked “Who will speak for England?”, what is striking is that the campaign was framed predominantly in British terms.