... against an emergent political economy of empire, republican radicals tried to end established religion, prerogative government, forced indentured servitude, military conscription, and racial slavery. Here, at its zenith, the radicalism of the English Revolution rendered the Reformation into a common...

... Revolution English Empire republicanism millenarianism indentured servitude bond slavery slavery abolition Fifth Monarchists Coleman Street Ward These governments have brought forth nothing but blood monsters…. [T]hose in covenant … with the Great Jehovah … are now making inquisition...