A Letter which had been used to indicate that Admiral Lord Nelson backed the slave commerce is a pretend, in response to the creator of a brand new e-book.

Chris Brett, chairman of the Nelson Society, argues it was the work of plantation house owners.

They had been attempting to piggyback on the status of the Trafalgar hero to show opinion in opposition to the abolition of slavery.

He says they used a real Nelson letter however doctored the wording to make it seem he wouldn't have supported a Bill to finish the commerce.

Debate about Nelson was prompted by a newspaper article in 2017. He was labelled a “white supremacist” who used his seat within the Lords to “perpetuate the tyranny, serial rape and exploitation organised by West Indian planters”.

The Guardian article sparked calls to tug down his column in Trafalgar Square.

Many of the accusations are based mostly on letters circulated after his heroic dying on the Battle of Trafalgar.

The commerce was abolished in 1807. The letter is dated June 1805, lower than 5 months earlier than his dying.

According to Mr Brett, essential context was eliminated by the forgers. Nelson, he provides, was comparatively liberal.

“He freed slaves, argued against the Barbary slave trade and supported proposals for slaves to be replaced with paid labour.

“And the charge of him being a ‘white supremacist’ is based on zero evidence. He had black sailors in his navy as well as freed slaves who were paid the same as everyone else. If Nelson hated any people it was the French.”

Nelson And The Slave Trade is on sale on Amazon.