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Story (Daily UK News)
April 19, 2021

Jane Austen outed as racist tea lover

Tea with sugar. Sugar from plantations. Plantations that used slaves. Guilty!



Jane Austen's love of tea drinking will be subjected to 'historical interrogation' over her apparent links to the slave trade.

The celebrated author – and noted abolitionist – wrote Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park while living in a cottage in the Hampshire village of Chawton, which has now been turned into a museum.

But staff at the property devoted to the 18th century author are planning a revisionist attack on her involvement in 'Regency era colonialism'.

Austen has links to the slave trade through her father George Austen, the rector for a nearby parish who was at one point a trustee for an Antigua sugar plantation.

The museum however want to look for potential connections to slavery through her use of sugar in her tea and her wearing of cotton clothing, all of which are deemed 'products of empire' brought back the Britain from colonies in Africa.

Lizzie Dunford, the museum's director says these links will be highlighted with future display boards to be installed at the property.

The move towards greater transparency in Austen's slavery links comes in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the killing of unarmed black man George Floyd in Minneapolis last year.

It led to demands for the removal of statues of Cecil Rhodes and Winston Churchill and for organisations to admit if they had benefited from slavery.

Ms Dunford told The Daily Telegraph: 'This is just the start of a steady and considered process of historical interrogation.

'The slave trade and the consequences of Regency era Colonialism touched every family of means during the period. Jane Austen's family were no exception.

'As 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'.
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