Beloved Regency author Jane Austen is facing a Black Lives Matter-inspired “historical interrogation,” over her family’s alleged links to the “slave trade,” according to the U.K.’s Telegraph.
Staff at the Jane Austen Museum, housed at the author’s home in the “Hampshire village of Chawton,” “where she wrote Emma and Mansfield Park before her death in 1817,” are concerned that the writer is linked to “the exploitation of the British Empire” because her father was, at one point, the trustee of a sugar plantation in the Caribbean and because the author was known to enjoy a good cup of tea, calling it a “refreshing, recuperative beverage.”
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