Staying Power by Fryer, Peter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction Preface 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 the 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 Phillis Wheatley Ignatius Sancho Ottobah Cugoano Olaudah Equiano

6. Slavery and the law

The legal pendulum Granville Sharp 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, 1787-1833

9. Challenges to empire

William Cuffay Mary Seacole Ira Aldridge Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 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 counter-attack Racism as colour bar Racism as riot: 1948

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

Notes Suggestions for further reading Index