The child, James Annesley, was sold as an indentured slave to the American colonies. This was the easier for his cousin, the fifth Lord Altham, to achieve since James' father, the fourth Lord Altham...
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothea Du Bois
This most sensational trial of the mid-century was reported in detail by the Gentleman's Magazine the following year, and used in more or less avowed fictions by Eliza Haywood
in Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Boyd
The title continues, Occasion'd by a certain nobleman
's cruel usage of his nephew
. Done extempore. Five hundred copies were printed by Henry Woodfall
in January 1744, and sold to the author for £1...
Textual Production
Eliza Haywood
The full title was Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, return'd from a thirteen years slavery in America, where he had been sent by the wicked contrivances of his cruel uncle. A story founded on...
