Casting off the shackles
28 February 2021 - 00:00
In the peak of summer in 1834 a slave named Sabina watched through the window as an official-looking man in a top hat arrived at the house where she worked. He announced he was there to do a "slave valuation" and took down the bare details of her life, writes Tanya Farber.
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