Faces of Perfect Ebony

preview-18
  • Faces of Perfect Ebony Book Detail

  • Author : Catherine Molineux
  • Release Date : 2012-01-02
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 375
  • ISBN 13 : 0674050088
  • File Size : 32,32 MB

Faces of Perfect Ebony by Catherine Molineux PDF Summary

Book Description: Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British imagination. For two hundred years, as Britain shipped over three million Africans to the New World, popular images of blacks as slaves and servants proliferated in London art, both highbrow and low. Catherine Molineux assembles a surprising array of sources in her exploration of this emerging black presence, from shop signs, tea trays, trading cards, board games, playing cards, and song ballads to more familiar objects such as William Hogarth's graphic satires. By idealizing black servitude and obscuring the brutalities of slavery, these images of black people became symbols of empire to a general populace that had little contact with the realities of slave life in the distant Americas and Caribbean. The earliest images advertised the opulence of the British Empire by depicting black slaves and servants as minor, exotic characters who gazed adoringly at their masters. Later images showed Britons and Africans in friendly gatherings, smoking tobacco together, for example. By 1807, when Britain abolished the slave trade and thousands of people of African descent were living in London as free men and women, depictions of black laborers in local coffee houses, taverns, or kitchens took center stage. Molineux's well-crafted account provides rich evidence for the role that human traffic played in the popular consciousness and culture of Britain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and deepens our understanding of how Britons imagined their burgeoning empire.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Faces of Perfect Ebony books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Faces of Perfect Ebony

Faces of Perfect Ebony

File Size : 29,29 MB
Total View : 3116 Views
DOWNLOAD

Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British imagination. For two hundred years, as B

Faces of Perfect Ebony

Faces of Perfect Ebony

File Size : 25,25 MB
Total View : 9124 Views
DOWNLOAD

Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British imagination. For two hundred years, as B

Wings of Ebony

Wings of Ebony

File Size : 16,16 MB
Total View : 5267 Views
DOWNLOAD

Instant New York Times bestseller! “A remarkable, breathtaking, earthshaking, poetic thrillride.” —Daniel José Older, New York Times bestselling author o

The Power to Die

The Power to Die

File Size : 8,8 MB
Total View : 6331 Views
DOWNLOAD

“[A] well-written exploration of the cultural and legal meanings of slave suicide in British North America . . . far-reaching, compelling, and relevant.” �

Black Faces of War

Black Faces of War

File Size : 50,50 MB
Total View : 7713 Views
DOWNLOAD

This commemoration of African-Americans in the U.S. military includes contributions from W. Stephen Morris and Luther H. Smith, one of the most-celebrated Tuske