'Property, power and authority. The implicit and explicit slavery connections of Bolsover Castle and Brodsworth Hall' in M Dresser & A Hann (eds), Slavery and the British Country House

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Author(s) Haggerty, Sheryllynne, & Susanne Seymour
Publication type Chapter
Year published 2013
Pages pp78-90
Publisher English Heritage
Place Published Swindon

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Name Cultural assets collection & patronage

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Traces the different ways in which the early owners of Brodsworth Hall [the merchant, Peter Thellusson, 1735-97, via plantation ownership] and Bolsover Castle [Duke of Portland via political office and investment] were associated with the slave economy. Has sections: 'Attitudes to property and authority in an era of slavery'; 'Bolsover Castle and the third Duke of Portland - the implicit connections'; 'Brodsworth Hall and Peter Thellusson, 1735-97 - explicit connections'