A portrait of British actor David Harewood has been commissioned to hang in a stately home belonging to the aristocratic family that once enslaved his ancestors.
has been commissioned to hang in a stately home belonging to the aristocratic family that once enslaved his ancestors., an 18th-century property near Leeds, northern England,through the slave trade. Harewood's ancestors were enslaved on a Caribbean sugar plantation owned by the family.
It was commissioned as part of an Open History program that attempts to"better reflect and understand the history of Harewood, which was built upon the vast fortune made by Henry Lascelles through the Transatlantic slave trade," the house said in a statement. Harewood, who is a director, author and activist as well as an actor, was born in Birmingham, England in 1965. His parents moved to the UK from Barbados in the 1950s as part of theIn 2021, he visited the stately home with a camera crew, as part of a TV series by British broadcaster Channel 5 entitled"1000 Years a Slave."
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