British Library adds Poet Laureate Ted Hughes to a dossier linking him to slavery and colonialism

-DAILY MAIL - Nov 22, 2020 -

JACK NEWMAN FOR MAILONLINE -

The celebrated poet Ted Hughes has been added to a dossier linking him to slavery and colonialism by the British Library

• The acclaimed poet was born in 1932 to a humble family in West Yorkshire

• But some 300 years previously, a relation was involved in the slave trade

• Nicholas Ferrar worked with the Virginia Company which established colonies

• George Orwell, Lord Byron and Oscar Wilde were also included on the list

The celebrated poet Ted Hughes has been added to a dossier linking him to slavery and colonialism by the British Library.

The former Poet Laureate, who came from humble origins in Yorkshire, was found to be a descendant of Nicholas Ferrar who was involved in the slave trade some 300 years before Hughes was born.

Ferrar, born in 1592, and his family, were 'deeply involved' with the London Virginia Company, which sought to establish colonies in North America.

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