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Samuel Pepys, the renowned seventeenth-century diarist, concealed evidence of accepting an enslaved boy as a bribe in his archives. In 1675, naval officer John Howe offered the boy to Pepys, a top Admiralty official, to secure support for his lost ship command. Pepys, with deep ties to Englands slave trade operations, altered records to protect his image and legacy. This discovery by Dr. Michael Edwards reveals Pepys role in shaping Englands naval power and its early involvement in global slavery.

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