Black Experience and the Empire

Name: Black Experience and the Empire
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ISBN: 9780199290673

ISBN-10: 0199290679

ISBN-13: 9780199290673

Edition: 2006

Authors: Philip D. Morgan, Sean Hawkins

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This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced the empire in everything from material goods to cultural style. The black experience varied greatly across space and over time. Accordingly, thirteen substantive essays and a scene-setting introduction range from West Africa in the sixteenth century, through the history of the slave trade and slavery down to the 1830s, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century participation of blacks in the empire as workers, soldiers, members of colonial elites, intellectuals, athletes, and musicians. No people were more uprooted and dislocated; or travelled more…

Book details

List price: $62.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Sean Hawkins is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.



Preface


Introduction




West Africans and the Atlantic 1500-1800




Through a Looking Glass: Olaudah Equiano and African Experiences in the British Slave Trade




The Black Experience in the British Empire 1680-1810




From Slaves to Subjects: Envisioning an Empire without Slavery 1772-1834




From Slavery to Freedom: Blacks in the Nineteenth Century British West Indies




Cultural Encounters: Britain and Africa in the Nineteenth Century




The Betrayal of Creole Elites 1880-1920




The British Empire and African Women in the Twentieth Century




African Participation in the British Empire




African Workers and Imperial Designs




The Black Experience in the British Caribbean in the Twentieth Century




The Black Experience in Twentieth Century Britain




Language, Race, and the Legacies of the British Empire