Belle : the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice /
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 an...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper Perennial,
[2014].
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | "First published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780062310774 0062310771 |