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Black London: Life Before Emancipation by Gretchen Gerzina (1995)
A glimpse into the lives of the thousands of Africans living in eighteenth century London.
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Gerzina has written a fascinating account of London blacks, focusing on the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Because of a paucity of sources from blacks themselves, Gerzina had to rely primarily on glimpses through white eyes, especially those of antislavery advocate Granville Sharp. Gerzina is quite adept at culling evidence of a rich, complex black life, with significant interaction (and intermarriage) with the white community.
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Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. Paupers and Princes: Repainting the Picture of Eighteenth-Century England
2. High Life below Stairs
3. What about Women?
4. Sharp and Mansfield: Slavery in the Courts
5. The Black Poor
6. The End of English Slavery
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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