This art historical tradition gave 18th-century white audiences "something ... Enslaved to Captain Stair Douglas of the Royal Navy and later a member of the Duchess of Queensberry's household ...

Their names are written on a piece of paper on the floor in the painting ... Black trumpeters who were employed by the royal household in the 18th century. In the Tudor period, John Blanke ...

The archivist gave him permission to open the letters, all addressed to 18th-century French sailors from their loved ones and seized by Great Britain's Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War (1756 ...