The Cost of Slavery, Pt. III: The Truth Behind Those Stately British Mansions
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Amid raging debates over how Britain reckons with its imperial past, a new report published by Britain's National Trust identifies over 93 places that were built, benefitted from, or connected...
show moreThey include Chartwell, Winston Churchill's former home in the southeastern county of Kent, Devon's spectacular Lundy Island, where convicts were used as unpaid labor and Speke Hall, near Liverpool, whose owner, Richard Watt traded rum made by slaves and purchased a slave ship in 1793 that trafficked slaves from Africa to Jamaica.
As modern-day contemporaries grapple with the implications of a long history of slavery and colonialism, this report highlights yet another blood-soaked form of racism.
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Author | Harriet Cammock |
Organization | Harriet Cammock |
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