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My research career began with a study of the economic, social and cultural history of debt and credit relations in the early modern period. I have published articles on the role of spinsters in the provision of credit in England in the seventeenth century, and edited the business and household accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, a spinster who was extensively involved in moneylending in the West Midlands in the mid-seventeenth century. In addition I have interests in women's work and medicine in early modern England.

For the last eighteen years I have also been interested in the ownership of people. I began with a Nuffield Fellowship that allowed me to examine enslavement for debt on the west coast of Africa during the transatlantic slave trade, and I have published a number of articles on this subject. I am now revisiting the longer history of this phenomenon, in order to understand why the ownership of people came to be sanctioned for such a long period of time, before coming under attack.

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Employment (1)

University of Hull: Hull, Kingston upon Hull, GB

2018-01-01 to 2024-12-31 | Lecturer in Economic History (Wilberforce Institute)
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Judith Mary Spicksley

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Royal Historical Society: London, GB

2018-12 to present | Fellow
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Judith Mary Spicksley

Works (2)

Voluntary Slavery and the Meaning of Slavery

Journal of Global Slavery
2024-11-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Judith M. Spicksley
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Lorenzo Sabbadini. Property, Liberty, and Self-Ownership in Seventeenth-Century England. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. Pp. 336. $37.95 (paper).

Journal of British Studies
2022-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Judith Spicksley
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