Mr Harewood s ancestors were enslaved on a sugar plantation owned by the Lascelles family, the Earls of Harewood. A portrait of him will now be placed in their ancestral home, Harewood House (above).
Homeland actor David Harewood has called on the British government to '100 per cent' apologise for slavery as he uncovered his own ancestral links to the slave trade
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