Legendary Diarist Pepys Concealed Slave Trade Connections
New research uncovers how 17th-century writer Samuel Pepys covered up being offered an enslaved boy as a bribe while working as a naval official.
Samuel Pepys, the famed 17th-century diarist whose journals captured the vivid details of his time, has long been celebrated for his candor and transparency. However, new research from a Cambridge University historian has uncovered a dark secret that Pepys went to great lengths to conceal - that he was offered an enslaved boy as a bribe during his time as a naval official.
Dr. Michael Edwards conducted an extensive investigation, consulting hundreds of records in The Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, The National Archives, and the Bodleian Library in Oxford. His findings, published in the study
Source: The Guardian
