Follow the money: the story of slavery and Shakespeare's First Folio by Emma Smith

As we reckon with the UK's colonial past, we need to examine the history behind valuable books " even our beloved Shakespeare Two stories, usually seen as disconnected, unfold themselves during the second half of the 18th century. The first is the increased dominance of Britain in the transatlantic slave trade. According to estimates from the Slave Voyages database, the number of enslaved people carried by British sh…

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