The only member of the royal family who can be said with any certainty to have died from the Black Death was in France at the time of her infection. There are further analyses planned that consider how the variables of ethnic group, national identity, language and religion interact.

A different strain of the disease is pneumonic plague, where the bacteria become airborne and enter directly into the patient's lungs. He was a great man; like Clarkson and Wilberforce he devoted his career, his time and his money to attacking slavery and the slave trade. Russell looked at inquisitions post mortem (IPMs)—taken by the crown to assess the wealth of the greatest landowners after their death—to assess the mortality caused by the Black Death, and from this arrived at an estimate of 23. Though to accuse such men of collaboration is to profoundly misunderstand the nature of the plantations.It is also used as a benchmark for other statistical estimates, and can help illustrate differences between various groups in the population. Willmott, Hugh; Townend, Peter; Mahoney Swales, Diana; Poinar, Hendrik; Eaton, Katherine; Klunk, Jennifer (February 2020). Eighteenth Century Yersinia pestis Genomes Reveal the Long-Term Persistence of a Historical Plague Focus", eLife. Which is not to say that many people did not nurse a sociopathic hatred for the people they thus exploited. One of the sailors had brought with him from Gascony the seeds of the terrible pestilence and through him the men of the town of Melcombe were the first in England to be infected.

Some people did not lose their Christian faith, if anything it was renewed; they began to long for a more personal relationship with God—around the time after the Black Death many chantries (private chapels) began to spread in use from not just the nobility, but to among the well-to-do. It seemed that everyone from the most prosperous banker to the lowliest clerk had an investment in some aspect of it, whether it be in the products created by black labour or in black people themselves.It happens because so often in the past, the contributions made by black people to the community were ignored or played down because black people weren't treated the same way as other people because of the colour of their skin.