| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso. |
| 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 -- Appendix: Jane Austen's Mansfield Connection. |
| Summary |
The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to live with her great-uncle, the Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery. Growing up in his lavish estate, Dido was raised as a sister and companion to her white cousin, Elizabeth. When a joint portrait of the girls, commissioned by Mansfield, was unveiled, eighteenth-century England was shocked to see a black woman and white woman depicted as equals. |
| Subject |
England -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
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Nobility -- England -- Biography.
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Racially mixed people -- England -- Biography.
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Illegitimate children -- England -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
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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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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
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Antislavery movements -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Belle, Dido Elizabeth, 1761-1804.
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Enslaved persons -- England -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780062310774 (paperback) |
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0062310771 (paperback) |
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