Belle : the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
Title:
Belle : the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
Author:
Byrne, Paula.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Harper Perennial edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Harper Perennial, [2014]
Physical Description:
xii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary:
The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to live with her great-uncle, the Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery. Growing up in his lavish estate, Dido was raised as a sister and companion to her white cousin, Elizabeth. When a joint portrait of the girls, commissioned by Mansfield, was unveiled, eighteenth-century England was shocked to see a black woman and white woman depicted as equals.
General Note:
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso.
Language:
English
Contents:
The Girl in the Picture -- The Captain -- The Slave -- The White Stuff -- "Silver-Tongued Murray" -- The Adopted Daughters -- Black London -- Mansfield the Moderniser -- Enter Granville Sharp -- The Somerset Ruling -- The Merchant of Liverpool -- A Riot in Bloomsbury -- A Visitor from Boston -- The Zong Massacre -- Gregson v. Gilbert -- Changes at Kenwood -- The Anti-Saccharites -- Mrs. John Davinier -- Appendix: Jane Austen's Mansfield Connection.
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ISBN:
9780062310774
Format :
Book