Ahhh. That’s another thing. The slave owners viciously punished any attempts for the enslaved to learn to read and write. No chance of them writing a charter.
Ahhh. That’s another thing. The slave owners viciously punished any attempts for the enslaved to learn to read and write. No chance of them writing a charter.
The Barons were no happier with restrictions placed on their rapacity and abuse of "their" peasants who were often little better than slaves and sought to defend their 'Commons" rights from privatization. Often this was all that kept them alive.
And then in the 18th Century, with the "Enclosure movement" it was said that "The man who stole a goose from the commons was transported to America, while the man who stole the commons from the goose was transported to Parliament."
Ahhh. That’s another thing. The slave owners viciously punished any attempts for the enslaved to learn to read and write. No chance of them writing a charter.
The Barons were no happier with restrictions placed on their rapacity and abuse of "their" peasants who were often little better than slaves and sought to defend their 'Commons" rights from privatization. Often this was all that kept them alive.
And then in the 18th Century, with the "Enclosure movement" it was said that "The man who stole a goose from the commons was transported to America, while the man who stole the commons from the goose was transported to Parliament."