British Library could relabel Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to include links to slave trade
Share For the case of Geoffrey Chaucers manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, written between 1387 and 1400 - before the Portuguese started the Atlantic slave trade - it will be explained how the book came to be owned by the Harley family of slave-traders around 300 years later. The family became wealthy through the exploits of Robert Harley (1661 - 1724) who, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, established the South Sea Company in 1711 and was connected to plantations in Barbados, Antigua and Su...
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