Week 07: October 9: Black London
Required Reading
Try to read these in their entirety- Sancho. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life.
- Read at least the editor's preface/The Life of Ignatius Sancho, Volume 1: Letters I-IXVII; then
- If you have the Broadview Edition, see also: Introduction, Chronology, Appendices A &B
- If you don't have this scholarly edition, you can access the text at Documenting the American South (I usually refer to this as DocSouth): Volume I and II;
- Brycchan Carey’s Sancho Resource Page will also be really useful to you, too, if you don't have a scholarly edition. See in particular the page on "Friends and Family"
- If you don't have this scholarly edition, you can access the text at Documenting the American South (I usually refer to this as DocSouth): Volume I and II;
- Brycchan Carey’s Sancho Resource Page will also be really useful to you, too, if you don't have a scholarly edition. See in particular the page on "Friends and Family"
- Habib. Black Lives in the Archives
- Archives, Records and Power
- Fuentes. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
Choose at least one of the following Introductions- Charter. Untold Histories: Black People in England and Wales during the period of the British Slave Trade, c. 1660-1807
- Nussbaum. The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth-Century
- Johnson. The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas (available via Howard Library)
- Gerzina. Black London: Life before Emancipation (The whole book can be read online or downloaded here - usually for free)
- Green. Black Americans in Victorian Britain (available via Howard Library)
During Class, we will do some hands-on work with Social Network Analysis, Textual Encoding, etc.
Recommended:Things Sancho
- Brycchan Carey’s Sancho Resource Page
- Gerzina .“High Life Below Stairs” in Black London: Life before Emancipation (The whole book can be read online or downloaded here - usually for free)
- Gerzina. “Ignatius Sancho: A Renaissance Black Man in Eighteenth-Century England.” The Journal of blacks in higher education 21 (1998): 106–107. Web.
- Carey. “’The Extraodinary Negro’:Ignatius Sancho, Joseph Jekyll, and the Problem of Biography”;
- Genius in Bondage (University Press of Kentucky, 2001) [ Online via Howard Library)
- Wheeler. Betrayed by some of my own complexion : Cugoano, abolition, and the contemporary language of racialism
- Ellis. “Ignatius Sancho’s Letters: Sentimental Libertinism and the Politics of Form” in
- Nussbaum. “Being a Man: Olaudah Equiano and Ignatius Sancho” in Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic;
- Cary, Ellis, and Salih, editors. Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Britain and its Colonies, 1760-1838 (Palgrave, 2004);
- King, editor. Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters (National Portrait Gallery, 1997);
- Sandiford. Measuring the Moment: Strategies of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Afro-English Writing (Associated UP, 1988).
- Iwanisziw. “Intermarriage in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Literature: Currents in Assimilation and Exclusion.“Eighteenth-Century Life 31.2 (2007): 56-82
National Archives Related
- BAME Resource Page
- Untold histories: black Britons during the period of the British slave trade, c1660-1807 (podcast)
- Writer of the Month: Researching Untold Histories (podcast)
- Charter. "Black British History on Record
- Black History Exhibit
- Freedom fighters: sources for black loyalists
- Charter. Black British History. Making History (archived)
- Charter. Genealogy and Black Britons in the 18th century (History Today)
Early Modern Era
- Black Tudors
- Davies Trickster Travels
Long 18th Century
- Freedom fighters: sources for black loyalists (The National Archives)
Victorians
- The black Victorians: astonishing portraits unseen for 120 years (Guardian)
- Hidden histories: the first black people photographed in Britain – in pictures (Guardian)
- Kellaway. Forgotten Faces (Guardian, 2 Oct 2005)
- Gerzina. Britain's Black Past
- Mobility in Chains: Freedom of Movement in the Early Black Atlantic
- Dickerson. Dark Victorians
Black Victorians: Black People in British Art, 1800-1900 - Vernon. Black Victorians. History Today (10 October 2005)
- Waters. Racism on the Victorian Stage Representation of Slavery and the Black Character (Cambridge UP, 2007)
- Black History Month 2005: Black Victorians in Manchester (Culture 24, 28 September 2005)
- McClintock. Imperial Leather: Race Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (1997)
- Black Victorians, Black Victoriana
- Brody. Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture
Prominent 19th-century Black Women Authors and Travel Narratives
- Seacole. Seacole
- Prince
- Prince
Former Enslaved as Refugees:
- Crafts
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Black Americans in Victorian Britain - Racism on the Victorian stage representation of slavery and the black character
Pre-Raphealites
- Pre-Raphaellite Online Resource (Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery)
- Marsh. Blog Posts Tagged Black Victorian
- Marsh. "‘Not simply passive Cinderellas’ – rediscovering the Pre-Raphaelite women" (Apollo: The International Art Magazine, 28 October 2019)
- Cultural Diversity at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
- Black Models