Black Victorians : hidden in history
Abraham, Keshia Nicole2023
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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 Rice to political agitator William Cuffay to abolitionists Henry 'Box' Brown and Sarah Parker Remond; from pre-Raphaelite muse Fanny Eaton to renowned composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. While acknowledging the paradoxes of Victorian views of race, 'Black Victorians' demonstrates, with storytelling verve and a liberatory impulse, how Black people were visible and influential, firmly rooted in British life.
Main title:
Black Victorians : hidden in history / Keshia N. Abraham, John Woolf.
Author:
Abraham, Keshia Nicole, authorWoolf, John (Historian), author
Imprint:
London : Duckworth, 2023.
Collation:
378 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780715654880 (pbk)
Dewey class:
305.89604109034305.896
Language:
English
Subject:
Black people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryGreat Britain -- Race relations -- History -- 19th centuryRacism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryGreat Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901SocietyEngland19th century, c 1800 to c 1899European historyAfrican historyHistory
BRN:
1312594
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