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Black England

a forgotten Georgian history
Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook
Verfasser*innenangabe: Gretchen Gerzina ; foreword by Zadie Smith
Jahr: 2022
Verlag: London, John Murray Books
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 261-268. - First published in Great Britain in 1995 by John Murray. - Auf dem Cover steht "Foreword by Zadie Smith".

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Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook
Verfasser*innenangabe: Gretchen Gerzina ; foreword by Zadie Smith
Jahr: 2022
Verlag: London, John Murray Books
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Systematik: Suche nach dieser Systematik GE.EG, FS.E
Interessenkreis: Suche nach diesem Interessenskreis Englisch [Sprache]
ISBN: 978-1-399-80488-2
2. ISBN: 1-399-80488-X
Beschreibung: Revised and updated edition, xxii, 281 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten : Illustrationen
Beteiligte Personen: Suche nach dieser Beteiligten Person Smith, Zadie
Sprache: Englisch
Fußnote: The idea that Britain became a mixed-race country after 1945 is a common mistake. Georgian England had a large and distinctive Black community. Whether prosperous citizens or newly freed slaves, they all ran the risk of kidnap and sale to plantations. Black England tells their dramatic, often moving stories. In the eighteenth century, Black people could be found in clubs and pubs, there were special churches, Black-only balls and organisations for helping Black people who were out of work or in trouble. Many were famous and respected: most notably Francis Barber, Doctor Johnson’s beloved manservant; Ignatius Sancho, a correspondent of Laurence Sterne; Francis Williams, a Cambridge scholar, and Olaudah Equiano whose Interesting Narrative went into multiple editions. But far more were ill-paid and ill-treated servants or beggars, despite having served Britain in war and on the seas. For alongside the free world there was slavery, from which many of these Black Britons had escaped. The triumphs and tortures of Black England, the Ambivalent relations between the races, sometimes tragic, sometimes heart-warming, are brought to life in this wonderfully readable history. Black England explores a fascinating chapter of our shared past, a chapter that has been ignored too long. Contents Foreword by Zadie Smith Xl A Note on the New Edition XXl 1. Paupers and Princes: Repainting the Picture of Eighteenth-Century England I 2. High Life Below Stairs 33 3. What About Women? 79 4. Sharp and Mansfield: Slavery in the Courts 107 5. The Black Poor 153 6. The End of English Slavery 187 Acknowledgements 231 Picture Credits 233 Notes 235 Bibliography 261 Index 269
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