{"id":434319,"date":"2021-04-20T10:06:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=434319"},"modified":"2021-04-20T10:06:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:06:57","slug":"jane-austen-canceled-author-faces-blm-inspired-historical-interrogation-over-link-to-slavery-love-of-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jane-austen-canceled-author-faces-blm-inspired-historical-interrogation-over-link-to-slavery-love-of-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Austen Canceled? Author Faces BLM-Inspired \u2018Historical Interrogation\u2019 Over \u2018Link To Slavery,\u2019 Love Of Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjane-austen-canceled-author-faces-blm-inspired-historical-interrogation-over-link-to-slavery-love-of-tea%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=434319&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2772.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Beloved Regency author Jane Austen is facing a Black Lives Matter-inspired \u201chistorical interrogation,\u201d over her family\u2019s alleged links to the \u201cslave trade,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/04\/18\/jane-austens-tea-drinking-will-face-historical-interrogation\/\">according to the U.K.\u2019s Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Staff at the Jane Austen Museum, housed at the author\u2019s home in the \u201cHampshire village of Chawton,\u201d \u201cwhere she wrote Emma and Mansfield Park before her death in 1817,\u201d are concerned that the writer is linked to \u201cthe exploitation of the British Empire\u201d because her father was, at one point, the trustee of a sugar plantation in the Caribbean and because the author was known to enjoy a good cup of tea, calling it a \u201crefreshing, recuperative beverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaff at the museum are now re-evaluating Jane Austen\u2019s place in \u2018Regency-era colonialism\u2019 in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests,\u201d The Telegraph reported Monday. \u201cThe Pride and Prejudice author\u2019s links to slavery through her father Rev George Austen, at one time the trustee of an Antigua sugar plantation, will be highlighted with future displays at the property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe museum\u2019s director has stated that Austen\u2019s tea-drinking, a key social ceremony in her era and her novels, also links the writer to the exploitation of the British Empire,\u201d the Telegraph added, as did taking sugar in her tea and wearing cotton, both of which were produced, the museum says, in questionable surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntroduced to the West by way of China, tea became an English obsession by the early 19th century, particularly once they learned how to grow crops of their own\u00a0throughout territories in India, Sri Lanka, and Africa,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/04\/19\/prejudice-exposed-jane-austens-links-to-slavery-interrogated\/\">the New York Post reported<\/a>. \u2018Austen\u2019s penchant for cotton clothing \u2014 more \u2018products of empire\u2019 \u2014 is also said to be a sign of her family\u2019s connection to plantations in the Caribbean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just the start of a steady and considered process of historical interrogation,\u201d the head of the Jane Austen museum, Lizzie Dunford, told the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe slave trade and the consequences of Regency-era Colonialism touched every family of means during the period.\u00a0 Jane Austen\u2019s family were no exception,\u201d she said. \u201cAs purchasers of tea, sugar, and cotton they were consumers of the products of the trade and did also have closer links via family and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Jane Austen\u2019s House, we are in the process of reviewing and updating all of our interpretation, including plans to explore the Empire and Regency Colonial context of both Austen\u2019s family and her work,\u201d Dunford added.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Austen\u2019s works were written and published after her father died, and the Rev. George Austen, who was, by trade, a clergyman, had only a loose connection to the sugar industry \u2014 a connection that expired more than a decade before Jane Austen was even born.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew work at the site will reflect the fact that in 1760, 15 years before Jane was born, Rev Austen became the trustee of the Antigua sugar plantation of his Oxford University friend James Nibbs,\u201d The Telegraph noted, identifying the only way Austen\u2019s family might have been directly involved, in any way, with the slave trade. \u201cIf Nibbs had died early, Rev Austen would have been responsible for the plantation and its slaves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, the Jane Austen museum advertises the author as a progressive and sympathetic to the abolition movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJane Austen belonged to that progressive group in society from which came the anti-slavery campaigners William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson,\u201d the museum\u2019s own literature notes, per the New York Post. \u201cShe reveals her social conscience in her reading and her writing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to her brother Henry, Jane Austen\u2019s favorite poet was the abolitionist William Cowper, whose works were read by Martin Luther King,\u201d The Telegraph added.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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