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 viii
... migrants lived , constitutes only a part of this work . The rest covers the latter part of the nineteenth century ... migration of black people into Britain reached staggering proportions , causing racial tension to mount and culminate ...
... migrants lived , constitutes only a part of this work . The rest covers the latter part of the nineteenth century ... migration of black people into Britain reached staggering proportions , causing racial tension to mount and culminate ...
Page 201
... migrants are serving a useful purpose . From the early years of the postwar migration , thousands of West In- dians went to Britain to work for London Transport , British Railways , and hospitals under special employment schemes between ...
... migrants are serving a useful purpose . From the early years of the postwar migration , thousands of West In- dians went to Britain to work for London Transport , British Railways , and hospitals under special employment schemes between ...
Page 203
... migrants has caused an upsurge of the former and greater incidence of certain types of the latter . Again , facts and figures disprove both these allegations . Official figures published in 1959 disclosed that 118 out of 156 cases of ...
... migrants has caused an upsurge of the former and greater incidence of certain types of the latter . Again , facts and figures disprove both these allegations . Official figures published in 1959 disclosed that 118 out of 156 cases of ...
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Part | 3 |
Courtesans and Blackamoors | 5 |
Bread and Liberty in Old England | 12 |
Copyright | |
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