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How Britain imprisoned some of the first black fighters against slavery

16th August 201830th August 2018 Josie McFarlane 11048 Views 0 Comment Abigail Coppins, African, African-Caribbean, Black British, Black fighters, Black history, Black population, Brigadier-General John Moore, brigands, British prison, Captain Louis Delgrès, Caribbean, Caribbean Island, Caribbean people, Caste, Coppins, Delgrès, dying, English Heritage, Eulalie Piemont, exhibition, Fighting, Forgotten history, Forgotton, former slaves, free-born property owner, guerrilla campaign, Jean-Louis Marin Pèdre, l’Année de la Liberté, L’armée Française dans les bois, Martinique, Matouba on Guadeloupe, mixed race, Napoleonic France, Panthéon, Pont Neuf, Portchester Castle, Portsmouth Harbour, prisoners, revolutionary, Runaway slaves, Second Carib War, Sir Charles Gordon, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, Slavery, St lucia, St Vincent, struggle against slavery, War of Austrian Succession

Forgotten history to be revisited with an exhibition revealing how some of the most celebrated black fighters in the early struggle against

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