Pepys ‘curated’ letters to conceal being offered enslaved boy as bribe – research

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2026/03/26 - 07:00 502 مشاهدة

Cambridge University historian uncovers letter to diarist who was a naval official in 1670s

His journals would become famed for their vivid detail and candour. But now, almost exactly 360 years after diarist Samuel Pepys chronicled the Great Fire of London, new research has found that he “erased” and “curated” correspondence to conceal he had been offered an enslaved boy as a bribe.

Cambridge University historian Dr Michael Edwards consulted hundreds of records in The Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge; The National Archives; and the Bodleian Library in Oxford for the study “Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689”.

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