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La duquesa de Sutherland y la esclavitud. Preguntas. Conceptos. “Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crimen oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait” [1] — Balzac.
15 de sept. de 2021 · The 2nd Duke of Sutherland subscribed to J.S. Buckingham’s anti-slavery The Slave States of America (London and Paris, 1842). His wife Harriet advocated for the abolition of slavery in America and, in 1853, hosted Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, when she visited Britain.
She was an important figure in London's high society, and used her social position to undertake various philanthropic undertakings including the protest of the English ladies against American slavery.
- The Hon. Harriet Howard, 21 May 1806
- Trentham, Staffordshire, England
What happened to the peasantry who were pushed off the Sutherland property? In the last line, Marx claims that “the enemy of British Wage-Slavery” has a right to condemn slavery, but not the Duchess of Sutherland. What does he mean by this? Who is the enemy of British Wage-Slavery to which he refers?
19 de ene. de 2024 · Perhaps the most infamous landowner implicated with the Highland Clearances is George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland. Leveson-Gower acquired a large amount of land upon his marriage to the Duchess of Sutherland, whose family had made their fortunes from a collection of slave plantations in Jamaica.
Duke of Sutherland is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom which was created by William IV in 1833 for George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford. A series of marriages to heiresses by members of the Leveson-Gower family made the dukes of Sutherland one of the richest landowning families in the United Kingdom.
Elizabeth Sutherland Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (née Sutherland; 24 May 1765 – 29 January 1839), also suo jure 19th Countess of Sutherland, was a Scottish noblewoman who married into the Leveson-Gower family, best remembered for her involvement in the Highland Clearances.
