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8%OFFCatherine Molineux - Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain - 9780674050082 - V9780674050082
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Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain

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Description for Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain Hardback. Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British imagination. In her exploration of this emerging black presence, Molineux assembles evidence ranging from shop signs, tea trays, trading cards, board games, and playing cards to song ballads and William Hogarth's graphic satires. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 374 pages, 17 color illustrations, 69 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3J; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 27. Weight in Grams: 722.

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, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
Series
Harvard Historical Studies
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674050082
SKU
V9780674050082
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About Catherine Molineux
Catherine Molineux is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.

Reviews for Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain
Offers an important and original analysis of local and popular representations of empire in Britain. It is the first account to present a sustained analysis of how images of white mastery and black servitude were mobilized to help Britons think about themselves in a metropolitan context. This book will make a major contribution to British imperial history, Atlantic history and ... Read more

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