In Britain it has always been a challenge to establish what sort of lives poorer people had during this period; the lives of black and mixed-race women in the British West Indies island of Grenada are even more difficult to…
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Black History Month: Black community in Eighteenth Century London.
As long ago as 1722 there was an established Black community in London, big enough to turn out in numbers in the wintry middle of January that year for the funeral of a black man named Phipps, who owned an…
Black History Month: Apprenticeship and Slavery
Title: Young Slave Boys. Source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library Document. Type: Visual Sources from the Schomburg Photographs and Prints Division (Slavery – Slaves – Portraits)- SC-CN-90-0190. Sir, I beg leave sir to…
Book Prize Winner 2010
The 2010 WHN Book Prize was awarded to Claire G. Jones for Femininity, Mathematics and Science, c 1880-1914, which was published by Palgrave in November 2009. Claire was presented wiith her prize by Professor Ann Heilmann on September 10 2010 at the…
Black History Month: Amy Bailey, ‘Discrimination’, Public Opinion (16 July 1938).
I have been to functions, where I happened to have been the only black[i] woman, and therefore an object of curiosity and resentment, nothing more. I could have been alone on a desert island. I have been to other functions…
Black History Month
October is Black History Month, where we celebrate the history of the black community across the globe. Throughout the month, the Women’s History Network Blog will have posts on black women and the black community. For more information on black…
Catherine Rew’s Oral History, part four
A number of years ago, the missionary Catherine Rew did an oral history with her daughter Kathryn Rew Van’t-Wout. This is the final part of the transcript. Part one is here and part two and part three. See here for a biography of…
Hannah Kilham (1774-1832)
Hannah Kilham (1774-1832), a Quaker convert, was born in Sheffield and died at sea between Sierra Leone and Liberia. Her husband died after eight months of marriage and her daughter died before she was three. She joined the Society of…
Catherine Rew’s Oral History, part 3
A number of years ago, the missionary Catherine Rew did an oral history with her daughter Kathryn Rew Van’t-Wout. This is part three of the transcript. Part one is here and part two here. See here for a biography of Catherine.…