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“We have tested and tasted too much, lover-

Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.”

 

This is the house of a rich Bristol merchant who made his money from slave-grown sugar from his Caribbean plantation. He was privileged to travel far but his view of the world was ugly. He saw the slaves as his property and God-given to help him in his work. And as we take a wide view we see that nothing - however sweet - is without a price. The wonder at his opulence disappears.

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