Humanity’s forgotten hero. He sailed with Capt. James Cook and was friends with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. But it was an unshakable belief in race equality that makes George Forster (1754-94) such a symbol of hope.
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He sailed with Captain Cook and was friends with Goethe. But it was an unshakable belief in race equality that makes Forster such a symbol of hope