Black Britannia: A History of Blacks in BritainJohnson Publishing Company, 1972 - 316 pages Historical study of the African and West Indian Black in the UK from 1594 to 1971 - covers forced labour as domestic workers, legal status, racial discrimination, race relations, racial conflict, racial policy, White attitudes, negro associations, immigration, social integration, employment (incl. As performers, writers, physicians, nurses, etc.), etc. Illustrations and references. |
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Page 129
... actor , styled on the posters as " The African Roscius , " after Quintus Roscius Gallus , the great Roman actor , was billed to play Othello at the Theatre Royal , Covent Garden . His Desdemona was to be Ellen Tree , later the wife of ...
... actor , styled on the posters as " The African Roscius , " after Quintus Roscius Gallus , the great Roman actor , was billed to play Othello at the Theatre Royal , Covent Garden . His Desdemona was to be Ellen Tree , later the wife of ...
Page 130
... actor , was a passenger in the same vessel . Wallack engaged Ira Aldridge as his personal attendant during the voyage . Aldridge left the ship in Liverpool in 1825 , with a view to becoming an actor . He had already gained some acting ...
... actor , was a passenger in the same vessel . Wallack engaged Ira Aldridge as his personal attendant during the voyage . Aldridge left the ship in Liverpool in 1825 , with a view to becoming an actor . He had already gained some acting ...
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... actor was shunned for one whole year . Many pro- slavery newspapers and journals which were mouth - pieces for the very powerful sugar , coffee , tobacco and cotton barons , the estate and planta- tion owners and slave - traders of the ...
... actor was shunned for one whole year . Many pro- slavery newspapers and journals which were mouth - pieces for the very powerful sugar , coffee , tobacco and cotton barons , the estate and planta- tion owners and slave - traders of the ...
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Courtesans and Blackamoors | 5 |
Bread and Liberty in Old England | 12 |
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