Former slaves were often given names of classical Greek figures: yet another way
to de-personalize and humiliate slaves. Thus names like Julius Caesar, Pompey, etc.
"Mungo" was an enslaved servant from Isaac Bickerstaff and Charles Dibdin's comic
opera "The Padlock", 1768. The Duchess of Queensberry had a former slave named
"Julius Soubise".
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