Britain's black past / edited and with an introduction by Gretchen H. Gerzina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gerzina, Gretchen, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Great Britain--History.

Black people.

Black people in literature.

Black people on television.

Race relations.

Great Britain--Race relations.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 382 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Before and After the Eighteenth Century: The John Blanke Project / Michael Ohajuru

2. The Slave and the Lawyers: Francis Barber, James Boswell and John Hawkins / Michael Bundock

3. Revisiting Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa / Vincent Carretta

4. Britain's Black Tars / Charles R. Foy

5. Black Runaways in Eighteenth

Century Britain / Simon P. Newman

6. The Making of a Liverpool Community: An Elusive Narrative / Raymond Costello

7. Pero's Afterlife: Remembering an Enslaved African in Bristol / Madge Dresser

8. Within the Same Household: Fanny Coker / Christine Eickelmann

9. The Georgian Life and Modern Afterlife of Dido Elizabeth Belle / Gretchen H. Gerzina

10. Ghostly Presences, Servants and Runaways: Lancaster's Emerging Black Histories and their Memorialization 1687

1865 / Alan Rice

11. Staging Sancho / Paterson Joseph

12. Julius Soubise in India / Ashley L. Cohen

13. The Gravity of Mary Prince's History / Sue Thomas

14. Nathaniel Wells: The Making of a Black Country Gentleman / Anne Rainsbury

15. Ira Aldridge in the North of England: Provincial Theatre and the Politics of Abolition / Theresa Saxon

16. `Fermentation will be universal': Intersections of Race and Class in Robert Wedderburn's Black Atlantic Discourse of Transatlantic Revolution / Raphael Hoermann

17. The Next Chapter: The Black Presence in the Nineteenth Century / Caroline Bressey

18. Genealogy and the Black Past / Kathleen Chater.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-365) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1789621615

9781789621617

9781789621600

1789621607

OCLC:

1119753827

Publisher Number:

99986731982