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Staying power : the history of black people in Britain (electronic book) / Peter Fryer

By: Publication details: London : Pluto Press, © 2018.; London : Pluto Press, 1984.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 632 pages.)ISBN:
  • 9781786803337 (ebk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.800941/FRY
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Contents:
1. Those kinde of people. Africans in Britannia ; Africans in Scotland ; Africans in England ; Queen Elizabeth's response ; A Khoi-khoin in England -- 2. Necessary implements. Sugar and slavery ; Chattels and status symbols ; Pageant performers -- 3. Britain's slave ports. A profitable business ; The slave-merchants of Bristol and Liverpool ; London as a slave port: the West India lobby ; Competition ; Quality control ; Black people in slave ports ; The slave ports' self-image -- 4. The black community takes shape. Early black organizations ; Black people at work ; Asians in Britain ; Black musicians -- 5. Eighteenth-century voices. Ukawsaw Gronniosaw ; Phyllis Wheatley ; Ignatius Sancho ; Ottobah Cugoano ; Olaudah Equiano -- 6. Slavery and the law. The legal pendulum ; Granville Sharpe challenges the slave-owners ; The Somerset case ; Slavery and the Scottish law ; Mass murder on the high seas ; The Grace Jones case -- 7. The rise of English racism. Race prejudice and racism ; The demonology of race ; Plantocracy racism ; Pseudo-scientific racism -- 8. Up from slavery. The black poor ; Resistance and self-emancipation ; Abolitionists and radicals ; The black radicals ; The everyday struggle -- 9. Challenges to empire. William Cuffay ; Mary Seacole ; Ira Aldridge ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; Challenges from Asia ; The rise of Pan-Africanism ; Black workers and soldiers -- 10. Under attack. Racism as riot: 1919 ; Claude McKay and the Horror on the Rhine ; Defence and cournter-attack ; Racism as colour bar ; Racism as riot: 1948 -- g 11. The settlers. The post-war immigration ; Racism as riot: 1958 ; Surrender to racism -- 12. The new generation. Born at a disadvantage ; Police against black people ; Resistance and rebellion -- Appendixes. A. Letter from Olaudah Equiano to Thomas Hardy, 1792 -- B. Letter from William Davidson to Sarah Davidson, 1820 -- C. Letter from Robert Wedderburn to Francis Place, 1831 -- D. William Cuffay's speech from the dock, 1848 -- E. J.R. Archer's presidential address to the inaugural meeting of the African Progress Union, 1918 -- F. Birmingham, the metal industries, and the slave trade -- G. Eighteenth-century biographies -- H. Visitors, 1832-1919 -- I. Prize-fighters, 1791-1902.
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This edition first published in 2018.

1. Those kinde of people. Africans in Britannia ; Africans in Scotland ; Africans in England ; Queen Elizabeth's response ; A Khoi-khoin in England -- 2. Necessary implements. Sugar and slavery ; Chattels and status symbols ; Pageant performers -- 3. Britain's slave ports. A profitable business ; The slave-merchants of Bristol and Liverpool ; London as a slave port: the West India lobby ; Competition ; Quality control ; Black people in slave ports ; The slave ports' self-image -- 4. The black community takes shape. Early black organizations ; Black people at work ; Asians in Britain ; Black musicians -- 5. Eighteenth-century voices. Ukawsaw Gronniosaw ; Phyllis Wheatley ; Ignatius Sancho ; Ottobah Cugoano ; Olaudah Equiano -- 6. Slavery and the law. The legal pendulum ; Granville Sharpe challenges the slave-owners ; The Somerset case ; Slavery and the Scottish law ; Mass murder on the high seas ; The Grace Jones case -- 7. The rise of English racism. Race prejudice and racism ; The demonology of race ; Plantocracy racism ; Pseudo-scientific racism -- 8. Up from slavery. The black poor ; Resistance and self-emancipation ; Abolitionists and radicals ; The black radicals ; The everyday struggle -- 9. Challenges to empire. William Cuffay ; Mary Seacole ; Ira Aldridge ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; Challenges from Asia ; The rise of Pan-Africanism ; Black workers and soldiers -- 10. Under attack. Racism as riot: 1919 ; Claude McKay and the Horror on the Rhine ; Defence and cournter-attack ; Racism as colour bar ; Racism as riot: 1948 -- g 11. The settlers. The post-war immigration ; Racism as riot: 1958 ; Surrender to racism -- 12. The new generation. Born at a disadvantage ; Police against black people ; Resistance and rebellion -- Appendixes. A. Letter from Olaudah Equiano to Thomas Hardy, 1792 -- B. Letter from William Davidson to Sarah Davidson, 1820 -- C. Letter from Robert Wedderburn to Francis Place, 1831 -- D. William Cuffay's speech from the dock, 1848 -- E. J.R. Archer's presidential address to the inaugural meeting of the African Progress Union, 1918 -- F. Birmingham, the metal industries, and the slave trade -- G. Eighteenth-century biographies -- H. Visitors, 1832-1919 -- I. Prize-fighters, 1791-1902.

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