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To: C19fan

Jane Austen’s two brothers were Post Captains in the Royal Navy. They made their money chasing Boney’s navy around the globe and in suppressing the slave trade.


3 posted on 03/11/2015 11:57:55 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: centurion316

Jane Austen took on slave labor in “Mansfield Park.”

I thought that the Darcy money came from tenant rents and work going on in Derbyshire, not from anything having to do with slave labor overseas.


18 posted on 03/11/2015 2:03:21 PM PDT by Cecily
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