An archbishop of Canterbury in the 18th century approved payments for the purchase of enslaved people for two sugar plantations in Barbados, documents seen by
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Born in Belfast to immigrant parents from Hong Kong, raised in the south of England, singer and producer Eva Liu first emerged in 2017, fronting