Britain's black past

by Gretchen Gerzina

PDF, 2020

Publication

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.

ISBN

9781789621600

Notes

Introduction
1. Before and After the Eighteenth Century: The John Blanke Project
2. The Slave and the Lawyers: Francis Barber, James Boswell and John Hawkins
3. Revisiting Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa
4.Britain’s Black Tars
5.Runaways in Eighteenth-Century Britain
6. The Making of a Liverpool Community: An Elusive Narrative
7. Pero’s Afterlife: Remembering an Enslaved African in Bristol
8. Within the Same Household: Fanny Coker
9. The Georgian Life and Modern Afterlife of Dido Elizabeth Belle
10. Ghostly Presences, Servants and Runaways: Lancaster’s Emerging Black Histories and their Memorialization 1687–1865
11. Staging Sancho
12. Julius Soubise in India
13. The Gravity of Mary Prince’s History
14. Nathaniel Wells: The Making of a Black Country Gentleman
15. Ira Aldridge in the North of England: Provincial Theatre and the Politics of Abolition
16. ‘Fermentation will be universal’: Intersections of Race and Class in Robert Wedderburn’s Black Atlantic Discourse of Transatlantic Revolution
17. The Next Chapter: The Black Presence in the Nineteenth Century
18. Genealogy and the Black Past
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