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Tutshill Primary School Students discover slavery is part of their local history.

Students from Tutshill find out how a slave owner who lived in nearby Chepstow was not quite what they expected.

Rather then being a rich sugar plantation owner Nathaniel Wells was the son of one and an African slave woman.

As a result he became one of the very few black slave owners and a prominent member of local society.

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last updated: 01/04/2008 at 11:40
created: 18/04/2007

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