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1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations |
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The Girl in the Picture -- The Captain -- The Slave -- The White Stuff -- "Silver-Tongued Murray" -- The Adopted Daughters -- Black London -- Mansfield the Moderniser -- Enter Granville Sharp -- The Somerset Ruling -- The Merchant of Liverpool -- A Riot in Bloomsbury -- A Visitor from Boston -- The Zong Massacre -- Gregson v. Gilbert -- Changes at Kenwood -- The Anti-Saccharites -- Mrs. John Davinier -- Appendix: Jane Austen's Mansfield Connection. |
| Summary |
The sensational tale of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high-society England and raised as a lady. The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was raised by her great-uncle, the Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery. When the portrait he commissioned of his two wards, Dido and her white cousin, Elizabeth, was unveiled, eighteenth-century England was shocked to see a black woman and white woman depicted as equals. Inspired by the painting, Belle vividly brings to life this extraordinary woman caught between two worlds, and illuminates the great civil rights question of her age: the fight to end slavery. Includes 20 pages of black-and-white photos. |
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"Also published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Copyright page. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-283). |
| Contents |
The Girl in the Picture -- The Captain -- The Slave -- The White Stuff -- "Silver-Tongued Murray" -- The Adopted Daughters -- Black London -- Mansfield the Moderniser -- Enter Granville Sharp -- The Somerset Ruling -- The Merchant of Liverpool -- A Riot in Bloomsbury -- A Visitor from Boston -- The Zong Massacre -- Gregson v. Gilbert -- Changes at Kenwood -- The Anti-Saccharites -- Mrs. John Davinier. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Belle, Dido Elizabeth, 1761-1804.
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Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793.
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Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793 -- Family.
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Belle, Dido Elizabeth, 1761-1804. |
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Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793. |
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1700-1799 |
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Racially mixed people -- England -- Biography.
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Slaves -- England -- Biography.
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Illegitimate children -- England -- Biography.
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Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793 -- Family.
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Nobility -- England -- Biography.
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Antislavery movements -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Antislavery movements. |
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Families. |
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Illegitimate children. |
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Nobility. |
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Race relations. |
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Racially mixed people. |
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Slaves. |
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England -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.
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England. |
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Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Byrne, Paula. Belle New York, NY : Harper Perennial, 2014 9780062310774 (DLC) 2014007447 (OCoLC)850181339 |
| ISBN |
9780062310781 : $14.99 |
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006231078X : $14.99 |
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