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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).
Letter:<strong> Dr David Veevers </strong>highlights the important distinction between the dehumanisation of people from west Africa and the treatment of indentured labourers in the colonies
Dr Rita Pemberton While a high value was placed on African labour for the successful operations of plantations in the Caribbean, the Africans were considered subhuman savages with undesirable cultural practices and unacceptable pagan religious. Hence, a threefold argument was articulated as justification for the existence and brutalities of the system of enslavement. First it
Birmingham-born David Harewood, 55, travelled to Barbados and Yorkshire's Harewood House which was built with profits from the Barbadian plantations his enslaved ancestors worked on in new C5 show
ANCESTORS of the Lascelles family made their fortune in the West Indian sugar trade.But what do we know about David Lascelles, the 8th Earl of Harewoo