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Unknown, 2014
Current format, Unknown, 2014, First Harper Perennial edition, No Longer Available.
Unknown, 2014
Current format, Unknown, 2014, First Harper Perennial edition, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formats
The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to live with her great-uncle, the Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery. Growing up in his lavish estate, Dido was raised as a sister and companion to her white cousin, Elizabeth. When a joint portrait of the girls, commissioned by Mansfield, was unveiled, eighteenth-century England was shocked to see a black woman and white woman depicted as equals.
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