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Job Mobility amongst Black People in England and Wales during the Long Eighteenth Century

The first historians of the Black presence in Britain assumed that, like their colonial counterparts, Black people1 were enslaved and tied to one master. This view is being modified but has by no means been generally abandoned. Drawing on a database of some 4500 entries, this paper looks at the occupations of first- and second-generation Black Britons. Initial findings suggest the first generation's mobility was comparable to that of the indigenous white population and that there were no differences in the second and subsequent generations.2