This is part of a printed letter written by Sir James Craufurd to Sir Patrick Blake of Bury St Edmunds on 20 October 1811. Craufurd is critical of Blake’s treatment of his two black servants and points out that in Britain black people have a very miserable and wretched time when they grow old and can no longer work. Unlike in the previous century, black servants were no longer fashionable as "they give a house a West Indies look" and as Blake had brought his two black servants out from the West Indies, he had a responsibility to look after them for the rest of their lives.
19.2 Suffolk Tracts p4, Suffolk Record Office
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Badly treating black servants in Suffolk 1811
