Required Reading

• 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
  • 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