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  • Henry de la Beche defends slavery

    Henry de la Beche defends slavery

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    Andrew Green
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    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’? …

  • John Ystumllyn: an African in 18th century Eifionydd

    John Ystumllyn: an African in 18th century Eifionydd

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    Andrew Green
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      It wasn’t his real name, ‘John Ystumllyn’, but one the locals gave him. Another was ‘Jac Du’ or ‘Jack Black’. How he arrived, unwillingly, in north Wales is obscure. What is certain is that his origins were in Africa, and that he found a home for himself and his family in the Criccieth area…