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  • Black Victorians

    Hidden in History

    by Keshia N. Abraham, John Woolf ...
    Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary.In this deeply researched and dynamic history, Woolf and Abraham reach into the archives to recentre our attention on marginalised Black Victorians, from leading medic George ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Wonders

    by John Woolf ...
    On March 23, 1844, General Tom Thumb, just 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this meeting marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century, and the age of the freak was born.Bewitching all levels of society, it was a world of curiosities and astonishing spectacle—of dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Staying Power

    The History of Black People in Britain

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    Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture of two thousand years of Black presence in Britain.First published in the '80s, amidst race riots and police brutality, Fryer's history performed a ... Read more

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  • The Nova Scotia Black Experience

    by Bridglal Pachai ...
    The Nova Scotia Black Experience Through the Centuries is a comprehensive account of the African Nova Scotian struggle to build a vital community in the face of racial discrimination.Originally published in two volumes as Beneath the Clouds of the Promised Land, this illustrated edition has been extensively updated and includes a new chapter tracing the experiences of Nova Scotia's black community ... Read more

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  • Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire

    Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

    by Trevor Burnard ...
    Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain’s largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica’s vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood.Thistlewood’s diary, ... Read more

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  • Green Unpleasant Land

    by Corinne Fowler ...
    Selected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England's links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company.Combining essays, poems and stories, it details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly ... Read more

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  • Legacies of British Slave-Ownership

    Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain

    by Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Rachel Lang, Nicholas Draper, Katie Donington ...
    This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery, and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, ... Read more

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  • An Unrecognized Contribution

    Women and Their Work in 19th-Century Toronto

    by Elizabeth Gillan Muir ...
    A treasure trove of incredible lives lived.— RICK MERCER, comedian and authorMuir sets out to restore the faces of women who worked and struggled in nineteenth-century Toronto. A fascinating read.— WARREN CLEMENTS, author and publisherEmphasizes the enormously influential role women had in laying the groundwork for life in the city today.— DR. ROSE A. DYSON, author of Mind Abuse: Media Violence ... Read more

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  • Children of Uncertain Fortune

    Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833

    by Daniel Livesay ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of ... Read more

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    Recollections of a Nineteenth Century Scottish Canadian

    Edited by Scott A. McLean, Michael E. Vance ...
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