Black Britannia: A History of Blacks in BritainHistorical 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 57
All the people who come into this country immediately become subject to the laws of this country , are governed by the laws , regulated entirely in their whole conduct by the laws , and are entitled to the protection of the laws of this ...
All the people who come into this country immediately become subject to the laws of this country , are governed by the laws , regulated entirely in their whole conduct by the laws , and are entitled to the protection of the laws of this ...
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Selwyn Lloyd , Leader of the House , made the excuse that the legislative program for that session was full to capacity and that he could not hold out any hope of it receiving the spe- cial facilities it would need to become law in the ...
Selwyn Lloyd , Leader of the House , made the excuse that the legislative program for that session was full to capacity and that he could not hold out any hope of it receiving the spe- cial facilities it would need to become law in the ...
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In other words , he was deliberately setting out to become a " black Englishman . ” He was discarding - as much as he could - all that was black . He wanted to forget his " blackness , " to cast it aside and become one of the white herd ...
In other words , he was deliberately setting out to become a " black Englishman . ” He was discarding - as much as he could - all that was black . He wanted to forget his " blackness , " to cast it aside and become one of the white herd ...
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Contents
Part | 3 |
Courtesans and Blackamoors | 5 |
Bread and Liberty in Old England | 12 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Black Britannia: A History of Blacks in Britain |
| Author | Edward Scobie |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Johnson Publishing Company, 1972 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 0874850568, 9780874850567 |
| Length | 316 pages |
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