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			Slavery

This oil painting dates from 1766 and shows the family of Sir William Young. Young was one of the most prominent and effective pro-slavery campaigners in the House of Commons. He was a plantation owner in St Vincent and Tobago, where he later became governor. The composition was painted by Johann Zoffany (1734/5 - 1810) when Sir William Young (1725 - 1788) became a baronet and was appointed Governor of Dominica. The family are all wearing theatrical Van Dyck costume, which was very popular at the time in family portraits. The young black man steadying the boys on horseback may have been a slave brought to England by Young from one of his West Indian plantations. He does not wear a metal collar, which was sometimes worn as a sign of a slave