Contrary to widespread perception Black people were present, visible and influential in Victorian Britain. This ground-breaking, meticulously researched study explores, among others, the struggles and contributions of the Chartist William Cuffay and abolitionists Henry ‘Box’ Brown and Ida B. Wells to politics, of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther to the Church, surgeon George Rice to medicine, and actor Ira Aldridge and composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor to the arts.
Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary.
In this deeply researched and dynamic history, Woolf and Abraham reach into the archives to recentre our attention on marginalised Black Victorians, from leading medic George Rice to political agitator William Cuffay to abolitionists Henry 'Box' Brown and Sarah Parker Remond; from pre-Raphaelite muse Fanny Eaton to renowned composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. While acknowledging the paradoxes of Victorian views of race, Black Victorians demonstrates, with storytelling verve and a liberatory impulse, how Black people were visible and influential, firmly rooted in British life.
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