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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0257-harrowing-and-sowing/ 1840s reproduction from the Bayeux Tapestry. Text is actually about Anglo-Saxon farming _before_ the Conquest, and uses lfriċ’s desc. of an enslaved ploughman and his boy, says he works hard, but omits the essential but unfashionable (1840s) fact he was a slave. Slavery was common before 1066, mostly died out by the end of the 12th C; the church was the main holdout. #vintageEngraving #fobo #angloSaxon #slavery #england #history #GIMP