Reimaging Britain: 500 Years of Black and Asian History
Ron Ramdin
Language: English
Pages: 352
ISBN: 0745315992
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
1381: The Year of the Peasants' Revolt
Beaten But Not Defeated: Siegfried Moos--A German anti-Nazi who settled in Britain
Bannockburn 1314: Robert Bruce's great victory
The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860-1914
Foremost spokesman and black writer, Equiano again decided to write to the Public Advertiser early in April 1787, reiterating that Irwin ‘never meant well’ to the Black Poor. He also hoped that in time he would become ‘very useful’. In this sense, his dismissal was fortuitous, for had he continued as Commissary, he might not have survived to become active in the anti-Slavery movement, which gained momentum following expulsion of the Black Poor. At last, on 10 April 1787, the ships left England.
Although his house had been searched, nothing was found that could be used as evidence against him. However, these times were unpropitious for clemency and the five radicals were condemned to be publicly hanged, beheaded and quartered, early on the morning of 1 May 1820 in what turned out to be the ‘grimmest’ and most ‘sickening’ scenes at Newgate.48 So the dream of revolution harboured by these desperate men failed miserably. But like William Blake, who had been a radical in his early years, but.
Them as devils in later drama, folklore and witchcraft. The mirth that black entertainers provoked released white people from their fear, but did little down the centuries to correct the distorted image of black people amongst the white population in Britain.8 Until recently very little was known about Asians in England and much less about them in Scotland. As one writer noted, in 1505, ‘certain foreigners’ were at the court of James IV of Scotland, who received them well, presented them with.
Materials and minerals, which were, in turn, brought over to Britain for sale in the European market. Of the profits made from this three-sided trade, the largest did not come from the sale of slaves to planters, but from demand in Europe for slave-grown products, notably sugar, which accrued 12 REIMAGING BRITAIN great wealth to many British investors.14 This was, as one historian has argued, perhaps the ‘earliest form’ of the international exploitation of black labour, and with the plunder.
Soon after the Second World War, Pauline Henriques and Connie Smith (followed by Nadia Cattouse, Sylvia Wynter, Isabelle Lucas and Cleo Sylvestre) were among the first to face the cameras. The vehicle for Pauline’s first dramatic appearance was Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings and she reflected on how ‘tremendously exciting’ it was for her. She identified ‘very strongly’ with her blackness and thought of the play as a ‘very important thing’ for the BBC to have undertaken. ‘After all’,.