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Video The Duchess of Devonshire

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Slavery

Watch an actor read an extract from a letter that Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, wrote to her mother, in about 1790.

In the letter she offers her mother an eleven-year-old boy slave she has been given, because her husband the Duke does not like her having a black. She says he would be a cheap servant for her mother, instead of Michel, but that if her mother doesn

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