Toby's Cottage is one of the few remaining traces of St Helena's long history of reliance on enslaved labour. The original cottage was a basic two-roomed dwelling inhabited by enslaved domestic workers at The Briars, where Napoléon spent his first months in exile on St Helena. At the time of Napoléon's arrival, it was inhabited by Toby, a skilled gardener, aged about 60, who was held in slavery by the Balcombe family. Napoléon struck up an unlikely friendship with Toby...

Groundbreaking international research into the regional origins of the Liberated Africans of St Helena.