The Grant stated:
âElizabeth, by the Grace of God of England ⦠Defender of the Faith ⦠grant to our trusty and well beloved servant Walter Raleigh ⦠to discover ⦠barbarous lands ⦠not actually possessed of any Christian Prince, nor inhabited by Christian People â¦
Upon ⦠finding ⦠such remote lands ⦠it shall be necessary for the safety of all men ⦠to live together in Christian peace ⦠Ordinances ⦠agreeable to ⦠the laws ⦠of England, and also so as they be not against the true Christian faith.â
Thomas Jefferson wrote in his Autobiography, 1821:
âThe first settlers of Virginia were Englishmen, loyal subjects to their King and Church,
Slavery
Slavery in the Ottoman Empire was a legal and significant part of the Ottoman Empire’s economy and traditional society.[1] The main sources of slaves were wars and politically organized enslavement expeditions in North and East Africa, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. It has been reported that the selling price of slaves decreased after large military operations.[2] In Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), the administrative and political center of the Ottoman Empire, about a fifth of the 16th- and 17th-century population consisted of slaves.[3] Customs statistics of these centuries suggest that Istanbul’s additional slave imports from the Black Sea may have totaled around 2.5 million from 1453 to 1700.[4]