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Not sure I see a link old bean. Cromwell died in 1658 - although he was executed after death (!) in 1661. Ms Austen was born in 1775 so they were seperated by 117 years. More as she didn't start writing until the 1790s and her stories were more contemporary to her time - late 18th, early 19th century - than the mid-17th.
The connection is between those profited immensely with their Caribbean holdings . . and are presented, in the novels, as otherwise decent people. Desirable husbands.
African slavery is a later development. The initial form of labor -- indentured servitude -- became too costly (in money). But the first century of operation was primarily via transportation for labor.
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