Crymble, Adam;
(2022)
The Black Londoner Experience: Exploring Black Life through Records of the Court, 1720-1840.
[Scholarly edition].
Crymble, Adam (Ed).
Adam Crymble: London, UK.
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Abstract
Black Londoners have lived in the city for centuries. This collection brings 10 Black London lives together in an accessible volume to share the diversity of their experiences in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with new readers. Drawing on the records of the Old Bailey criminal courthouse, these ten carefully selected trials have been chosen to show some of the breadth of Black experience in London during the age of enslavement (c. 1720-1840). The volume includes Black victims, witnesses, and defendants; men, women, and children; sailors, servants, and entertainers; locals, immigrants, and visitors. Some were treated well by the justice system, and others were met with cruelty. Each had their own experience. While the volume contains details of crime and conflict, crime is not the sole focus. The sources also give us glimpses into the daily lives of these Black individuals as they interacted with the city and its inhabitants. We learn where these Black people spent their time, with whom, doing what, and sometimes even what they had in their pockets. Each of the ten cases has been accessibly formatted for classroom use or personal study, and features illustrations by Manon Wright. The sources are arranged like plays, making them easy to read aloud as a means of better understanding the theatre of the courtroom and the power dynamics at play. Dr Crymble offers notes and reflections on tricky or foreign concepts in each case, as well as issues that he has noted through experience that students often misinterpret by making modern assumptions about the past.
| Type: | Scholarly edition |
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| Title: | The Black Londoner Experience: Exploring Black Life through Records of the Court, 1720-1840 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.6939285 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6939286 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). |
| Keywords: | History, Black history, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, British history, migration history, London history, history of crime |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152971 |
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