…a question that occurred to us when George Michael’s “Careless Whisper” came on the radio:
Why, exactly, were his feet guilty?
Or do we really want to know?
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…a question that occurred to us when George Michael’s “Careless Whisper” came on the radio:
Why, exactly, were his feet guilty?
Or do we really want to know?
Readers may well also have encountered Equiano being dramatised, under his alternate name of Gustavus Vassa, as the principal supporting character in the opening episode of the second series of “Garrow’s Law” last year.
The story loosely followed some of the legal events after the so-called “Zong Affair” of 1781 (or “Zong Massacre” as it’s now more honestly called).