British Library could relabel Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to include links to slave trade
Share For the case of Geoffrey Chaucer's 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 Surinam. The South Sea Company was responsible for the transportation of around 64,000 enslaved Afric...
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