Britain's black past / editor, Gretchen H. Gerzina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gerzina, Gretchen, editor.

BBC Radio 4, associated with work.

Series:

Liverpool scholarship online.

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Great Britain--History.

Black people.

Black people in literature.

Black people on television.

Great Britain--Race relations.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Expanding upon the 2017 Radio 4 series 'Britain's Black Past', this book presents those stories and analyses through the lens of a recovered past. Even those who may be familiar with some of the materials will find much that they had not previously known, and will be introduced to people, places, and stories brought to light by new research. In a time of international racial unrest and migration, it is important not to lose sight of similar situations that took place in an earlier time. In chapters written by scholars, artists, and independent researchers, readers will learn of an early musician, the sales of slaves in Scotland, the grave - now a shrine - of a black enslaved boy left to die in Morecombe Bay, of a country estate owned by a mixed-race slave owner, and of the two strikingly different people who lived in a Bristol house that is now a museum.

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 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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 16, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Radio tie-in.

ISBN:

1-80034-113-X

1-78962-744-3