Dido Belle: the slave's daughter who lived in Georgian elegance

As the film of a woman's amazing life is released, a new biography of Lord Mansfield looks at his role in abolishing the slave trade

She wore the finest silks, lived in one of London's most desirable homes and studied in a library still regarded as one of the greatest achievements of the renowned 18th-century designer John Adam. Yet Dido Belle was the daughter of an unknown black slave woman so could not sit at the dinner table with her adopted family at Kenwood House in north London.

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