Black People in the British Empire by Fryer, Peter

Black People in the British Empire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780745343709)

Vendor: Peter Fryer
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Format: Hardcover
$115.00
$115.00
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Black People in the British Empire by Fryer, Peter

Black People in the British Empire

$115.00
Black People in the British Empire by Fryer, Peter

Black People in the British Empire

$115.00
Format: Hardcover
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Black People in the British Empire is a challenge to the official version of British history. It tells the story of Britain's exploitation and oppression of its subject peoples in its colonies, and in particular the people of Africa, Asia and Australasia Peter Fryer reveals how the ideology of racism was used as justification for acquiring and expanding the Empire; how the British Industrial Revolution developed out of profits from the slave trade; and how the colonies were deliberately de-industrialised to create a market for British manufacturers. In describing the frequency and the scale of revolts by subject peoples against slavery and foreign domination - and the brutality used in crushing them - Peter Fryer exposes the true history of colonialism, and restores to Black people their central role in Britain's past.

Author: Peter Fryer
ISBN-10: 0745343708
ISBN-13: 9780745343709
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 06/20/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
By Peter Fryer
By Peter Fryer
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Peter Fryer (1927-2006) was a British writer and journalist, whose coverage of the arrival of citizens from the Caribbean onboard the HMT Empire Windrush led to a deep and long-lasting interest in the histories of Black Britons. In 1984, he wrote the classic book Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain (Pluto, 2018).

Stella Dadzie is best known for her co-authorship of The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain (Virago, 1985) which won the Martin Luther King Award for Literature. She is a founder member of OWAAD (Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent), a national umbrella group that emerged in the late 1970s as part of the British Civil Rights movement. Her latest book is A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance (Verso, 2020).

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