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Black Victorians : hidden in history
- Title
- Black Victorians : hidden in history / Keshia N. Abraham, John Woolf.
- Author
- Abraham, Keshia Nicole
- Publication
- Richmond, United Kingdom : Duckworth, an imprint of Duckworth Books Ltd, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Woolf, John (Historian)
- Description
- xxv, 355 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 'Black Victorians' shows how Black lives were visible, present and influential - not temporary presences but established and rooted; and how paradox and ambivalence characterised the Victorian view of race.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / John Woolf -- Part one: Context and concealment -- Hidden in history -- Land of hope and glory -- Part two: Struggle and survival -- Broadmoor: William Brown -- Bearing witness: John Flinn -- Hearing Joseph Peters -- Rights: Edward Albert -- Part three: Church and state -- Protest: William Cuffay -- Black aristocracy: Sarah Forbes Bonetta -- The bishop: Samuel Ajayi Crowther -- Young soldier: James Francies Durham -- Part four: The arts -- Sounds from the diaspora: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor -- 'African Roscius': Ira Aldridge -- The circus: Pablo Fanque -- Art and beauty: Fanny Eaton -- Part five: Fighting for freedom -- Defiance: Henry 'Box' Brown' -- Daring to be heard: Sarah Parker Remond -- Crossing borders: Ellen Craft and William Craft -- Anti-racism: Ida B. Wells -- Looking forward: The Pan-African movement -- Conclusion: Not the first, not the last.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-855
- ISBN
- 9780715654453
- 0715654454
- 9780715654460 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1338668901
- Author
- Abraham, Keshia Nicole, author.
- Title
- Black Victorians : hidden in history / Keshia N. Abraham, John Woolf.
- Publisher
- Richmond, United Kingdom : Duckworth, an imprint of Duckworth Books Ltd, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1901
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Woolf, John (Historian), author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-855