The Story of Dido Belle
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Dido Belle was a young black woman, born to a British Naval Officer and a slave woman but brought up in an aristocratic family. She was privileged but not equal, loved but not legally free. She occupied an extraordinary position in the home of the Lord Chief Justice Mansfield as his adopted niece, at a time when he was giving judgement in the notorious case of the Zong slave massacre. Julie will be looking at her life story, her portrait and what her life tells us about attitudes to black people in Britain in the 18th Century.
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