At the Hop
Sukhdev Sandhu, 20 February 1997
Black England: Life before Emancipation
by Gretchen Gerzina.
Murray, 244 pp., £19.99, October 1995,0 7195 5251 6 Show More
by Gretchen Gerzina.
Murray, 244 pp., £19.99, October 1995,
Reconstructing the Black Past: Blacks in Britain 1780-1830
by Norma Myers.
Cass, 162 pp., £27.50, July 1996,0 7146 4576 1 Show More
by Norma Myers.
Cass, 162 pp., £27.50, July 1996,
“... uncovering evidence that slavery existed here as well as in the colonies. Despite the titles of Norma Myers’s and Gretchen Gerzina’s contributions to this new historiography, both deal mainly with metropolitan black history (Black London was the title of the American edition of Gerzina’s book). Neither writer refers to Gory, the black manservant ... ”
