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A landmark history exploring and celebrating the lives of Black
Victorians. Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain
traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed
another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour
marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary. In this
deeply researched and dynamic history, Woolf and Abraham reach into
the archives to recentre our attention on marginalised Black
Victorians, from leading medic George Rice to political agitator
William Cuffay to abolitionists Henry ‘Box’ Brown and Sarah
Parker Remond; from pre-Raphaelite muse Fanny Eaton to renowned
composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. While acknowledging the paradoxes
of Victorian views of race, Black Victorians demonstrates, with
storytelling verve and a liberatory impulse, how Black people were
visible and influential, firmly rooted in British life. Â
A landmark work of revisionist history exploring and celebrating
the lives of Black Victorians. Our vision of Victorian Britain
tends to the monolithic - white, imperialist, prurient, patrician.
However, though until very recently overlooked in our textbooks,
there was another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of
colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary. In
this deeply researched, dynamic and revelatory history, Woolf and
Abraham reach back into the archives to recentre our attention on
marginalised Black Victorians, from leading medic George Rice to
protestor William Cuffay to attention-grabbing abolitionists Henry
'Box' Brown and Sarah Parker Remond; from pre-Raphaelite muse Fanny
Eaton to composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor. Black Victorians shows
how Black lives were visible, present and influential - not
temporary presences but established and rooted; and how paradox and
ambivalence characterised the Victorian view of race.
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