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Author | : Fergus Mason |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-05-04 |
Genre | : Antislavery movements |
ISBN | : 9781499358964 |
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Dido Elizabeth Belle was born in 1761. It would be nearly 100 years before slavery was abolished. The date would be of little importance if not for one important factor: Belle's father was white, but her mother was of African descent. It was an unthinkable act for the time, and Belle's life was destined for only bad things. But remarkably bad things did not happen. Belle was sent to live with her uncle, the Earl of Mansfield; here she was raised as a free woman and given the same privileged upbringing as her cousins. This book tells the inspiring true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, and how the life of a woman most people have never heard helped pave the way for future change.
Author | : Paula Byrne |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2014-04-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 006231078X |
Download Belle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode—a stunning story 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 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. 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. Belle includes 20 pages of black-and-white photos.
Author | : Fergus Mason |
Publisher | : BookCaps Study Guides |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2014-05-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 162917260X |
Download Dido Elizabeth Belle: A Biography Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Dido Elizabeth Belle was born in 1761. It would be nearly 100 years before slavery was abolished. The date would be of little importance if not for one important factor: Belle's father was white, but her mother was African. It was an unthinkable act for the time, and Belle's life was destined for only bad things. But remarkably bad things did not happen. Belle was sent to live with her uncle, the Earl of Mansfield; here she was raised as a free woman and given the same privileged upbringing as her cousins. This book tells the inspiring true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, and how the life of a woman most people have never heard helped pave the way for future change.
Author | : Nova Edwards |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2017-03-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781544854885 |
Download Dido Elizabeth Belle Paper Doll Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This paper doll is based on a painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle. Dido was an English lady whose mother was an enslaved African and whose father was English nobility. After Dido's mother's death, her father took her to live with his uncle and aunt who raised her. Dido's remarkable life is unique in that she lived a life of privilege, whereas others who were born into an enslaved family usually lived a life of servitude. The paper doll has seven gowns that are representative of the time period in which she lived. PLEASE NOTE: The paper doll and clothes are printed on standard 24 lb paper.
Author | : Gretchen H. Gerzina |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2020-03-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789627443 |
Download Britain's Black Past Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Expanding upon the 2017 Radio 4 series ‘Britain’s Black Past’, this book presents those stories and analyses through the lens of a recovered past. Even those who may be familiar with some of the materials will find much that they had not previously known, and will be introduced to people, places, and stories brought to light by new research. In a time of international racial unrest and migration, it is important not to lose sight of similar situations that took place in an earlier time. In chapters written by scholars, artists, and independent researchers, readers will learn of an early musician, the sales of slaves in Scotland, the grave—now a shrine—of a black enslaved boy left to die in Morecombe Bay, of a country estate owned by a mixed-race slave owner, and of the two strikingly different people who lived in a Bristol house that is now a museum. Black sailors, political activists, memoirists, appear in these pages, but the book also re-examines living history, in the form of modern plays, television programmes, and genealogical sleuthing. Through them, Britain’s Black Past is not only presented anew, but shown to be very much alive in our own time.
Author | : Norman S. Poser |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0773589805 |
Download Lord Mansfield Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the first modern biography of Lord Mansfield (1705-1793), Norman Poser details the turbulent political life of eighteenth-century Britain's most powerful judge, serving as chief justice for an unprecedented thirty-two years. His legal decisions launched England on the path to abolishing slavery and the slave trade, modernized commercial law in ways that helped establish Britain as the world's leading industrial and trading nation, and his vigorous opposition to the American colonists stoked Revolutionary fires. Although his father and brother were Jacobite rebels loyal to the deposed King James II, Mansfield was able to rise through English society to become a member of its ruling aristocracy and a confidential advisor to two kings. Poser sets Mansfield's rulings in historical context while delving into Mansfield's circle, which included poets (Alexander Pope described him as "his country's pride"), artists, actors, clergymen, noblemen and women, and politicians. Still celebrated for his application of common sense and moral values to the formal and complicated English common law system, Mansfield brought a practical and humanistic approach to the law. His decisions continue to influence the legal systems of Canada, Britain, and the United States to an extent unmatched by any judge of the past. An illuminating account of one of the greatest legal minds, Lord Mansfield presents a vibrant look at Britain's Age of Reason through one of its central figures.
Author | : Mary Seacole |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2022-07-20 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : |
Download Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mary Seacole (1805 to 1881) was an amazing woman, in many ways way ahead of her time. She was a free black woman born in Jamaica of Scottish and Creole descent. This is her autobiographical account of her colourful and brave life. She was named 'the greatest black Briton' in 2004 and also posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit.
Author | : Joanne Major |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-12-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781526757852 |
Download All Things Georgian Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Take a romp through the long eighteenth-century in this collection of 25 short tales. Marvel at the Queen's Ass, gaze at the celestial heavens through the eyes of the past and be amazed by the equestrian feats of the Norwich Nymph. Journey to the debauched French court at Versailles, travel to Covent Garden and take your seat in a box at the theater and, afterwards, join the mile-high club in a newfangled hot air balloon. Meet actresses, whores and highborn ladies, politicians, inventors, royalty and criminals as we travel through the Georgian era in all its glorious and gruesome glory. In roughly chronological order, covering the reign of the four Georges, 1714-1830 and set within the framework of the main events of the era, these tales are accompanied by over 100 stunning color illustrations.
Author | : Heidi Ardizzone |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 2007-07-17 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780393051049 |
Download Illuminated Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ardizzone explores the secret life of Belle Da Costa Greene, the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who was renowned for her self-made expertise, her acerbic wit, and her flirtatious relationships.
Author | : Lawrence Scott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-05-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781999776862 |
Download Dangerous Freedom Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The prize-winning Trinidadian novelist imagines the real life of Dido Belle, the mixed race girl brought up in the aristocratic home of England's Lord Chief Justice at the end of the 18th century. A radical and moving portrayal of how Dido, now a wife and mother, engages with the traumas of the past and present in particular the mystery of her moth