Essays on the History of Blacks in Britain: From Roman Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century Book

	Illustrations
	Foreword
	Introduction	1
	Acknowledgements	8
1	The early African presence in the British Isles	9
2	The role of Black people in William Hogarth's criticism of eighteenth-century English culture and society	30
3	Black resistance to slavery and racism in eighteenth-century England	58
4	Black Americans in Britain and the struggle for Black freedom in the United States, 1820-70	81
5	Zion on the Zambesi: Dr J. Albert Thorne, 'a descendant of Africa of Barbados', and the African colonial enterprise: The 'preliminary stage', 1894-7	99
6	Duse Mohamed Ali, Afro-Asian solidarity and Pan-Africanism in early twentieth-century London	124
7	'The wisers who are far away': The role of London's Black press in the 1930s and 1940s	150
8	Black intellectuals at the British core: 1920s-1940s	173
9	The Black presence and experience in Britain: An analytical overview	202
10	From the fringes: The emergence of British Black historical studies	225
	Select bibliography	243
	Index	253