Tag: black people in Wales
‘A Gentleman had just arrived, with – a black servant!’
The gentry of eighteenth-century Wales, like most rich people in any country at any time, longed to be fashionable. One of the rarer badges of fashion for them was to be seen as enjoying the services of a black servant. As Chris Evans, the historian of Wales and slavery, puts it, ‘their presence spoke of […]
Henry de la Beche defends slavery
If you were a financial beneficiary of a Caribbean sugar plantation dependent on slave labour, how would you react to the movement to abolish slavery? Fight the movement aggressively in order to defend your interests? Keep your head down and wait to collect your government compensation? Admit the rightness of the movement’s cause, and ‘disinvest’? […]
