TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abraham,Keshia Nicole
AU  - Woolf,John
TI  - Black Victorians: hidden in history 
SN  - 9780715654453
U1  - 941.00496 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Duckworth
KW  - Black people
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Victoria, 1837-1901
N2  - "Our vision of Victorian Britain tends to the monolithic – white, imperialist, prurient, patrician. However, though until very recently overlooked in our textbooks, there was another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary. In this deeply researched, dynamic and revelatory history, Woolf and Abraham reach back into the archives to recentre our attention on marginalised Black Victorians, from leading medic George Rice to protestor William Cuffay to attention-grabbing abolitionists Henry ‘Box’ Brown and Sarah Parker Remond; from pre-Raphaelite muse Fanny Eaton to composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor. Black Victorians shows how Black lives were visible, present and influential – not temporary presences but established and rooted; and how paradox and ambivalence characterised the Victorian view of race"--
ER  -