[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Livia

And yet everyone on here knows that he had a questionable record, despite his charitable work. It's not only you who knows, you know. Everyone knows. And most people understand that a man who died that long ago would have been a creature of his time and not of ours.

Not really as we abolished all slavery in 1833, he had to travel to south Africa to continue the exploitation.
I'm not interested in what is or isn't known by whom on the subject, I'm just presenting my take on the issue.