“Commerce has taught us more humanitie”? Enslaved Black people, Jewish people, and the conditional rightslessness of ‘infidels’ in seventeenth-century England
Holly Brewer, ‘Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire’, Law and History Review 39:4 (2021), 765-834;

Jacob Selwood, ‘Jewish Immigration, AntiSemitism and the Diversity of Early Modern London’, Jewish Culture and History, 10:1 (2008), 1–22

To attend online via Microsoft Teams, please email mailto:ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Speaker: Dr Kathleen Commons (Sheffield)
Organising department: Faculty of History
Part of: Early Modern Britain Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Belinda Clark