Admiral Nelson’s declining reputation in recent years has been blamed on a widespread conspiracy to pit him against abolitionists through a series of forged letters in the 1800s.
The president of the Nelson Society says a second Nelson letter has been discovered that purports to show that naval leaders opposed the abolition of slavery.
Chris Brett says the new “forged” letter contains subtle differences from a letter Nelson printed months before his death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, which is believed to have been destroyed. Stated.
The letter, addressed to plantation owner Simon Taylor, criticized the “detestable and accursed doctrines” of leading anti-abolitionist William Wilberforce.
Brett’s new book,