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Black and British : a forgotten history / David Olusoga.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olusoga, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--Great Britain--History.
- Black people.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 602 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colored) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Macmillan an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2016.
- Summary:
- David Olusoga's A Black History of Britain reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination and Shakespeare's Othello. Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how black and white Britons have been intimately entwined for centuries.
- Contents:
- 1 'Sons of Ham' 29
- 2 'Blackamoors' 57
- 3 'For Blacks or Dogs' 77
- 4 'Too Pure an Air for Slaves' 113
- 5 'Province of Freedom' 143
- 6 'The Monster is Dead' 199
- 7 Moral Mission 233
- 8 'Liberated Africans' 283
- 9 'Cotton is King' 339
- 10 'Mercy in a Massacre' 367
- 11 'Darkest Africa' 399
- 12 'We are a Coloured Empire' 427
- 13 'We Prefer their Company' 467
- 14 'Swamped' 489.
- Notes:
- Based on a BBC program.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1447299736
- 9781447299738
- OCLC:
- 945783927
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