Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Ansah Sessarakoo NPG D9199

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Faber Jr, after Gabriel Mathias

Sessarakoo was sent on a grand tour of Europe by his father but was betrayed by the Captain of the ship when he was instead sold into slavery in Barbados. When his father, a wealthy gold and slave-trader, learned of this betrayal he refused to continue trading with any English merchants. The Royal African Company intervened, promising to find Sessarakoo, release him from slavery and to arrange safe passage home for him via London in exchange for trade to continue. In London, Sessarakoo and his... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.