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The shadow king

by Jane Stevenson

Racially mixed peoplePhysiciansFictionFamilyHistoryBehn, aphra, 1640-1689, fictionPhysicians, fictionLondon (england), fiction

Balthasar Stuart, the son of Elizabeth of Bohemia and an African prince, works as a doctor in late seventeenth-century Holland, until he is driven out by the plague to build a new life in Restoration London and Barbados.

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