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Britain's black past /

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gerzina, Gretchen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Liverpool University Press, 2020
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 of race and class in Robert Wedderburn's Black Atlantic discourse of transatlantic revolution / Raphael Hoermann
  • The next chapter: the Black presence in the nineteenth century / Caroline Bressey
  • Genealogy and the Black past / Kathleen Chater