Belle, the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice, Paula Byrne
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Label
Belle, the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice, Paula Byrne
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-283)
resource.biographical
individual biography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Belle
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
871200099
Responsibility statement
Paula Byrne
Sub title
the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
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
Table Of 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
Target audience
adult
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Creator
Genre
Subject
- Biographies
- Nobility -- England -- Biography
- Racially mixed people -- England -- Biography
- Antislavery movements -- England -- History -- 18th century
- England -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century
- Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793 -- Family
- Belle, Dido Elizabeth, 1761-1804
- Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
- Enslaved persons -- England -- Biography
- Illegitimate children -- England -- Biography
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- Classification4
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject10
- Biographies
- Nobility -- England -- Biography
- Racially mixed people -- England -- Biography
- Antislavery movements -- England -- History -- 18th century
- England -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century
- Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793 -- Family
- Belle, Dido Elizabeth, 1761-1804
- Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
- Enslaved persons -- England -- Biography
- Illegitimate children -- England -- Biography
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