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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Byrne, Paula
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper Perennial, [2014].
Subjects:
Belle, Dido Elizabeth, > 1761-1804.
Mansfield, William Murray, > Earl of, > 1705-1793.
Mansfield, William Murray, > Earl of, > 1705-1793 > Family.
Racially mixed people > England > Biography.
Slaves > England > Biography.
Illegitimate children > England > Biography.
Nobility > England > Biography.
Antislavery movements > England > History > 18th century.
England > Race relations > History > 18th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
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.