{"id":230874,"date":"2021-04-19T18:52:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T15:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jane-austens-links-to-slavery-interrogated-by-historians\/"},"modified":"2021-04-19T18:52:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T15:52:01","slug":"jane-austens-links-to-slavery-interrogated-by-historians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jane-austens-links-to-slavery-interrogated-by-historians\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jane Austen\u2019s links to slavery ‘interrogated’ by historians"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Jane Austen\u2019s links to slavery ‘interrogated’ by historians<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Historians are spilling the tea <\/em>over Jane Austen\u2019s connections with slave plantations.<\/p>\n

A museum dedicated to the \u201cPride & Prejudice\u201d author, located at her old home in the Hampshire village of Chawton, is reportedly investigating the Austen family\u2019s place in \u201cRegency era colonialism,\u201d<\/a> as evidenced by Austen\u2019s love of tea, clothing and other refinements. <\/p>\n

Before father George Austen was a clergyman of a local parish, he was a trustee of an Antigua sugar plantation, where slaves from Africa worked the fields to cultivate the prized ingredient that would be part of the Austens\u2019 tea habit.<\/p>\n

Introduced to the West by way of China, tea became an English obsession by the early 19th century, particularly once they learned how to grow crops of their own throughout territories in India, Sri Lanka and Africa<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Austen\u2019s penchant for cotton clothing \u2014 more \u201cproducts of empire\u201d \u2014 is also said to be a sign of her family\u2019s connection to plantations in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

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Having spent the first part of her life in Southampton, Jane Austen moved to Chawton with her mother and sister in 1809, three years after the death of her father.<\/figcaption>
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The director of Jane Austen\u2019s House museum, Lizzie Dunford, told the Telegraph that they intend to spotlight this little-discussed aspect of Austen\u2019s personal story.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just the start of a steady and considered process of historical interrogation,\u201d said Dunford. <\/p>\n

Since the Black Lives Matter movement erupted globally, such \u201cinterrogation\u201d has already put other British historical figures on blast, including former Prime Ministers Cecil Rhodes and Winston Churchill, whose statues were recently removed due to revelations that their families had benefited from slavery.<\/p>\n

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Jane Austen wrote and revised some of her most notable works at the house in Chowton.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cThe slave trade and the consequences of Regency era Colonialism touched every family of means during the period. Jane Austen\u2019s family were no exception,\u201d Dunford continued. \u201cAs purchasers of tea, sugar and cotton, they were consumers of the products of the trade, and did also have closer links via family and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Jane\u2019s love of contemporary fashion and brews, scholars say her work in \u201cMansfield Park\u201d and \u201cEmma\u201d bears evidence of her distaste for slavery. In light of this, curators are also planning a display dubbed \u201cBlack Lives Matter to Jane Austen,\u201d to highlight her abolitionist references.<\/p>\n

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Jane Austen is said to have written about her distaste for slavery in later works. <\/figcaption>
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\u201cJane Austen belonged to that progressive group in society from which came the anti-slavery campaigners William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson,\u201d the museum literature reads, according to the Telegraph. \u201cShe reveals her social<\/a> conscience<\/a> in her reading and her writing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Dunford, \u201cWe believe that this is hugely important work and are looking forward to sharing this over the next few years.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Jane Austen\u2019s links to slavery ‘interrogated’ by historians” Historians are spilling the tea over Jane Austen\u2019s connections with slave plantations. A museum dedicated to the \u201cPride & Prejudice\u201d author, located at her old home in the Hampshire village of Chawton, is reportedly investigating the Austen family\u2019s place in \u201cRegency era colonialism,\u201d as evidenced by Austen\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/jane-austen-slaves-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[102594,1471,17209,102720,71571,21170],"class_list":["post-230874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4-19-21","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-books","tag-jane-austen","tag-museums","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}