Hasty note, about to teach, today& #39;s times piece on Austen& #39;s House/ context controversy. Important: Austen family& #39;s abolitionism went much deeper than article reports. Both Charles and Frank Austen sailed in active suppression of slave trade after 1807.
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Frank Austen wrote in detail about misery on slave ships and misery of having to let them go if they belonged to other nations. Austen lived with Frank& #39;s family for years and wrote with him every week. This is all quite general knowledge among Austen scholars. #APSTogether

good sources. Brian Southam, Jane Austen and the Navy. Paula Byrne, A Life in Small Things, and even piece I wrote for New Yorker last summer. #APSTogether