Building connected to the life of a slave, Cassiobury House, Hertfordshire

Building connected to the life of a slave, Cassiobury House, Hertfordshire

Photograph taken 1883 © Reproduced by permission of Historic England Archive ref: CC56/00850

Cassiobury, Hertfordshire, was the seat of the Earls of Essex who owned a family or series of slaves named Donay

Location

Hertfordshire Watford

Period

Tudor (1485 - 1602)

Themes

Gravestone of Scipio Africanus, 1720, St Mary's Church, Henbury, Bristol. The gravestone bears an interesting inscription giving an insight into how black people were thought of at this time in history.

Slavery

Tags

elizabethan victorian mansion manor elizabethan slavery Tudor (1485 - 1602) slave trade diversity