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Introduction |
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Preface |
1. |
‘Those kinde of people’ |
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Africans in Britannia |
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Africans in Scotland |
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Africans in England |
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Queen Elizabeth’s response |
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A Khoi-khoin in England |
2. |
‘Necessary Implements’ |
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Sugar and slavery |
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Chattels and status symbols |
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Pageant performers |
3. |
Britain’s slave ports |
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A profitable business |
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The slave-merchants of Bristol and Liverpool |
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London as a slave port: the West India lobby |
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Competition |
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Quality control |
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Black people in the slave ports |
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The slave ports’ self-image |
4. |
The black community takes shape |
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Early black organizations |
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Black people at work |
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Asians in Britain |
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Black musicians |
5. |
Eighteenth-century voices |
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Ukawsaw Gronniosaw |
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Phillis Wheatley |
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Ignatius Sancho |
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Ottobah Cugoano |
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Olaudah Equiano |
6. |
Slavery and the law |
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The legal pendulum |
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Granville Sharp challenges the slave-owners |
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The Somerset case |
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Slavery and the Scottish law |
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Mass murder on the high seas |
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The Grace Jones case |
7. |
The rise of English racism |
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Race prejudice and racism |
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The demonology of race |
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Plantocracy racism |
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Pseudo-scientific racism |
8. |
Up from slavery |
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The black poor |
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Resistance and self-emancipation |
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Abolitionists and radicals |
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The black radicals |
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The everyday struggle, 1787-1833 |
9. |
Challenges to empire |
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William Cuffay |
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Mary Seacole |
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Ira Aldridge |
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor |
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Challenges from Asia |
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The rise of Pan-Africanism |
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Black workers and soldiers |
10. |
Under attack |
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Racism as riot: 1919 |
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Claude McKay and the ‘Horror on the Rhine’ |
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Defence and counter-attack |
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Racism as colour bar |
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Racism as riot: 1948 |
11. |
The settlers |
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The post-war immigration |
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Racism as riot: 1958 |
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Surrender to racism |
12. |
The new generation |
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Born at a disadvantage |
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Police against black people |
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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 |
Notes |
Suggestions for further reading |
Index |