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Belle, Dido Elizabeth, 1761-1804

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Personal name headingBelle, Dido Elizabeth, 1761-1804
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Variant(s)Belle, Elizabeth, 1761-1804
Associated countryEngland
Birth date1761
Death date1804
Found inByrne, Paula. Belle, 2014: ECIP galley (Dido Elizabeth Belle; Elizabeth Belle) data view (Dido Belle; the first mixed race girl and slave introduced into 18th century high society in England and brought up as a lady)
Wikipedia, Feb. 25, 2014 (Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761-1804); illegitimate daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay and enslaved biracial African woman Maria Belle; Dido was sent to live in the household of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, who was Lindsay's uncle and thus Dido's great-uncle; she was brought up as a free young gentlewoman at Kenwood House while her great uncle, in his capacity of Lord Chief Justice, was ruling on cases affecting the legitimacy of the whole slave trade)
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