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Henry De la Beche

Henry De la Beche and the Enslavement of Black People

Posted on: 3rd July 2020

Henry De la Beche, first Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, President of the Geological Society of London and friend of Mary Anning inherited a sugar plantation in Jamaica and became the owner of over 200 enslaved black people. Our article tells this story. Black Lives Matter.