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2024/081: Black England: A Forgotten Georgian History — Gretchen Gerzina
While [Granville Sharp] and others were fighting to resolve the issue of freedom for British slaves, the American colonists adopted similar rhetoric to agitate for white colonists’ freedom from England. [loc. 2957]
Black England was sparked by a London bookseller who told Gerzina ‘Madam, there were no black people in England before 1945’: a falsehood which Gerzina explores in this account of Black people, history and culture in Britain.( Read more... )
