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His grandfathers had both been important figures of the Enlightenment: Josiah Wedgewood, industrialist and anti-slavery campaigner, and Erasmus Darwin, a doctor whose book ‘Zoonomia’ had set ...
One of his grandpas was Josiah Wedgewood, who campaigned to end slavery. The other was Erasmus Darwin, a doctor who wrote a book called 'Zoonomia'. This book discussed a very controversial idea ...