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Under the Eaves: Evaristo’s Epitaph

  • 9th March 202112th April 2021
  • by Museum of Cornish Life

This ‘under the eaves’ feature follows a different route to a curious story about a master, Thomas Johns and his former slave, a black man, Evaristo Muchovela, who came to live in Cornwall in the 1860s. He died in 1868 and his grave is in Wendron churchyard. One of the objects in the museum is

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