Cesar Picton: The Enslaved African Who Defied the Odds to Become a Wealthy British Businessman - TalkAfricana

Cesar Picton: The Enslaved African Who Defied the Odds to Become a Wealthy British Businessman - TalkAfricana

Cesar Picton was a formerly enslaved African child, taken from Senegambia in West Africa and gifted to a British politician. He rose to become a wealthy coal merchant and property owner in 18th- and 19th-century England, defying the odds and overcoming the harsh realities of his early life. Cesar Picton was born around 1755 in […] TalkAfricana