Merry Christmsd from Spain
Dec 23, 2021
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Episode description
King George III called slavery 'repugnant' in an essay he wrote five decades before he signed Abolition, it has been revealed. The monarch's arguments against trading in human life come in a 200-page manuscript called 'Of Laws relative to Government in general', written while he was under the intellectual mentorship of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute.
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