John Panzio: The African Who Survived a Slave Ship and Later Served as Valet to King Charles XV of Sweden
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In nineteenth-century Europe, Africans were rare sights in royal courts, and when present, they were often treated less as ordinary people and more as symbols of curiosity and status. One such figure was John Panzio, an African man who became a valet and close attendant to King Charles XV of Sweden in the mid 1850s. […]
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