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,
“... Head. Thanks to its blacks London had an air of vibrant cosmopolitanism that attracted the young Wordsworth, for example, emerging from three years of blanched provincialism at Cambridge: Now homeward through the thickening hubbub ... The Hunter-Indian; Moors Malays, Lascars, the Tartar, the Chinese And Negro Ladies in white muslin Gowns. By the 19th ... ”