William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldDido Belle meanwhile presents a strange irony in this wonderfully researched display: her last known relative was a white South African living free under apartheid. Marble Hill House, designed by Roger Morris, was commissioned by Henrietta Howard after she made a successful investment in a slave trading company. Asked to decide when a man is free, Lord Mansfield ruled after five months’ deliberation that forcibly sending Somerset abroad because ‘he absented himself from his service or for any other cause’ was illegal as ‘no authority can be found for it in the laws of this country and therefore… James Somerset must be discharged’.Mansfield branded it “shocking”.
In-depth research is rendered almost futile if it is not incorporated into physical sites of memory.
If these buildings are about remembering, who or what gets ‘forgotten’ in the public discourse can be just as significant, with consequences that can contribute to a collective idealisation of our past.Slavery and the British Country House, eds Madge Dresser and Andrew HannFee income, along with earnings per architect and earnings per member of architecture staff, continued to rise in 2019The Countess of Suffolk’s House (1749), coloured engraving of Marble Hill House – a house paid for by profits from the slave tradeKenwood House in Highgate, north LondonChoose your AJ subscription packageFor a better experience please update your browser to its latest version.The latest in the AJ’s retrofit case study series looking at architects who have saved buildings from the bulldozers or given them a brand new lifeYour browser appears to have cookies disabled. But in some areas, the figure would have been much higher – Scotland, along with the South West, South and South East of England.It must be remembered that in the 18th century, during this prolific building period, slavery and the slave trade were legal and completely entwined in the everyday life of the nation.
UCL researcher Nick Draper finds that by the abolition of slavery in 1833, in total between ‘five and 10 per cent of all British country houses would be expected to have been occupied by slave owners’. Jahrhundert stammende Haus wurde für William Murray, 1. Kenwood House’ “links to the transantlatic slave trade and West Indian slavery are well known,” Isabelle Priest tells us. Kenwood House in North London, where Belle lived with the Mansfields Insurance was Lord Mansfield’s speciality, and he concluded that the insurers were not liable. Illuminating, well-meaning and thorough, this is a captivating day out.Engagingly presented in paintings, case notes and witness reports, the exhibition includes accounts of the James Somerset and Zong trials.Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray later Finch-Hatton, attributed to Zoffany.
Britain’s heritage is a contested area. Dido wears a similar silk gown to Lady Elizabeth, whose hand rests on her arm in an affectionate gesture, showing, as many documents do, that Dido was very close to her cousins.Presented as equally beautiful, the painting if anything emphasises Dido’s skin colour. The book forms part of a growing body of research in the past 20 years into the economic, cultural and physical impact of the slave trade and slavery on metropolitan Britain and its continuing legacy.
A senior legal figure, his judgements became monumental stepping-stones towards the abolition of the slave trade.
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