Freemasonry and slavery in the British Empire
Abstract
First the different approaches to race and slavery during the Enlightenment will be examined. The so-called exclusions of those who are not “free-born,” as well as of“bondmen” by Anderson in the well-known third article of The Charges of a Freemason, in the 1723 Constitutions, will be studied in context. The introduction of lodges in plantation societies and their role within the Empire will be studied. Finally the focus will be on the involvement of some British masons including the Duke of Sussex in the abolitionist campaigns. How did the British masons embrace the new liberal approach which led to the abolition of slavery throughout the Empire in 1834?
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