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...work on his Catalogus Plantarum, which was eventually published in 1696. Over the next fifty years Sloane's collections grew enormously to fill a large part of his house and attracted a stream of distinguished figures. One in particular, Carl Linnaeus, was to use Sloane's texts and drawings as the basis for descriptions of new species. When Sir Hans Sloane died in 1753 he...

...worked as a nurse on the Unionist side, and later became a spy for the Union army, again showing great bravery and resourcefulness. Military victory at last brought slavery to an end. But the human cost was extreme – over 600,000 Americans perished in the conflict – and the ex-slave communities would continue to face injustices and discriminatory laws for generations...