Black London: Life Before Emancipation

by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Book Overview

Gerzina (Vassar Coll.) 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813522595
• ISBN13: 9780813522593
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"