Hasty note, about to teach, today's times piece on Austen's House/ context controversy. Important: Austen family'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'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