Jane Austen already engages with slavery in all kinds of ways

There’s that pregnant silence at the Mansfield Park dinner when Fanny asks Sir Thomas about the plantations that sustain the estate

Mrs Elton’s family wealth comes from slavery, a fact that adds to our dislike of her https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/1273923113592532992

Jane Fairfax’s monologue comparing the evils of the ‘governess trade’ with the slave trade is another example

I don’t claim to be an Austen expert, merely a devotee, but it seems clear to me that she was an abolitionist, at a time when the movement was gathering steam in society

I think we can safely assume from Austen's personal dislike of slavery, plus the fact that property and propriety are inextricably linked (H/T Tony Tanner); her heroes earn the right to their position through decency - it's highly unlikely estates would be based on slavery at all

Apart from Mansfield Park of course, which she already covers in the novel brilliantly, without the need for wokeists to stick their clumsy retroactive oar in