Tag: slavery

• George Alexander Gratton

  

  This tale is full of contradiction, cruelty and the absurd; of a young ‘fanciful child of nature’ bought by a showman to exhibit to the public until his death and lavish funeral in a shared vault in a church in Marlow.

  Mary Tebje

  18th December 2018

  Buckinghamshire, Chiltern Hills, sense of place, The Chilterns, Travel and Tourism, Travel blogging, Travel in England

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