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In the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century Victorian society was wild for ivory, the natural substance that is the tusk of an elephant. Ivory has been used for centuries in different continents and countries, but in Victorian Britain, demand spiked. Here at the Museum of Cornish Life we have a number of Victorian items that
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In my last blog for the museum, I wrote about the play that museum supporter Patrick Carroll wrote. His play was inspired by the grave of Evaristo Muchovela in Wendron. As I listened to the play and wrote the blog, several questions were circling in my mind. Why did Thomas Johns have a slave when
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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