Faces of perfect ebony : encountering Atlantic slavery in imperial Britain /

"Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British imagination. For two hundred years, as Britain shipped over three million Africans to the New World, popular images of blacks as slaves and servants proliferated in London ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Molineux, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Colección:Harvard historical studies ; v. 175.
Temas:
Black people > Great Britain > History.
Black people in popular culture > Great Britain > History.
Imperialism in popular culture > Great Britain > History.
Slavery > Great Britain > History.
Slavery > Great Britain > Public opinion.
Public opinion > Great Britain.
Personnes noires dans la culture populaire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
ImpĐerialisme dans la culture populaire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Opinion publique > Grande-Bretagne.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Society.
Black people.
Black people in popular culture.
Imperialism in popular culture.
Public opinion.
Slavery.
Slavery > Public opinion.
Schwarze
Sklaverei
Volkskultur
Imperialismus.
Sklaverei.
Great Britain.
Groḃritannien
Groḃritannien.
Schwarze.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: imagined encounters
  • Black servitude and the refinement of Britain
  • Imagined ends of empire
  • Accidental monstrosities
  • Polishing jet
  • Pleasurable encounters
  • Hogarth's Atlantic London
  • Britain's rebel slaves
  • Conclusion: peripheries within.

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