Britain's black past

Britain's black past

by Gerzina, Gretchen

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In recent years researchers, both affiliated and independent, have done exciting new research on black people in Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and even earlier. This book gathers this new work on people and events into a single, exciting new volume

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  • Full title :Britain's black past / edited and with introduction by Gretchen H. Gerzina

Summary

In recent years researchers, both affiliated and independent, have done exciting new research on black people in Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and even earlier. This book gathers this new work on people and events into a single, exciting new volume

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2020

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xiv, 382 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781789627442, 1789627443
  • oclc:on1147283827
  • LC Classification:DA125.N4
  • Dewey Decimal:305.896041

Table of Contents

Before and after the eighteenth century: the John Blanke project / Michael Ohajuru -- The slave and the lawyers: Francis Barber, James Boswell, and John Hawkins / Michael Bundock -- Revisiting Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa / Vincent Carretta -- Britain's Black tars / Charles R. Foy -- Black runaways in eighteenth-century Britain / Stephen Mullen, Nelson Mundell and Simon P. Newman -- The making of a Liverpool community: an elusive narrative / Raymond Costello -- Pero's afterlife: remembering an enslaved African in Bristol / Madge Dresser -- Within the same household: Fanny Coker / Christine Eickelmann -- The Georgian life and modern afterlife of Dido Elizabeth Belle / Gretchen H. Gerzina -- Ghostly presences, servants and runaways: Lancaster's emerging Black histories and their memorialization 1687-1865 / Alan Rice -- Staging Sancho / Paterson Joseph -- Julius Soubise in India / Ashley L. Cohen -- The gravity of Mary Prince's History / Sue Thomas -- Nathaniel Wells: the making of a Black country gentleman / Anne Rainsbury -- Ira Aldridge in the North of England: provincial theatre and the politics of abolition / Theresa Saxon -- 'Fermentation will be universal': intersections…

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Subjects

Black people Black people -- History. -- Great Brita… Black people in literature Black people on television Grande-Bretagne -- Relations raciales Great Britain Great Britain -- Race relations History Personnes noires à la télévision Personnes noires dans la littérature Race relations

Writers

Gerzina, Gretchen

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