Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery with Miranda Kaufmann

Name: Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery with Miranda Kaufmann
Start: 2027-01-28T13:00:00.000Z
End: 2027-01-28T14:00:00.000Z
Location: National Portrait Gallery

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Thursday 28 January 2027

13:00 – 14:00

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£9–10

£10 standard; £9 Members/concessions.

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National Portrait Gallery

St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE

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Historian Miranda Kaufmann explores the lives and inherited wealth of nine Georgian heiresses connected to Caribbean slavery.

Miranda Kaufmann discusses nine Georgian heiresses and the wealth they inherited from Caribbean plantations. The lecture examines inheritance, empire and exploitation, alongside the lives of people enslaved by these families.

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Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery with Miranda Kaufmann

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