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Julius Soubise (1754 – 25 August 1798) was a formerly enslaved Afro-Caribbean man and a well-known fop in late eighteenth-century Britain.
The satirized depiction of Soubise, A Mungo Macaroni, is a relic of intersectionality between race, class, and gender in eighteenth-century London. His life of luxury as a free man of colour allowed him to excel in elite activities such as fencing and made him notorious in London's social scene as an exception to norms.
Biography
Soubise was born on the island of St.
Kitts in the Caribbean, the son of an enslaved Jamaican woman.
Julius Soubise was born enslaved on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts.
He was bought by Royal Navy Captain Stair Douglas and taken to England, enslaved, at ten years of age, under the name Othello. In 1764, he was given to Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry, Captain Douglas' relative and an eccentric emblem of London's high society, who manumitted him.
He was renamed after a French duk