xiv, 382 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-365) and index
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
