Samuel Pepys censored his links to slavery, new study reveals
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The fact that Samuel Pepys owned at least two enslaved people in 17th-century London is no secret. In some of his personal letters he was unashamedly open about this. In September 1688, he told a ship’s captain that neither “whipping or fetters” had reformed a “mischievous” slave in his household. He asked the captain to […]