A review by mrswythe89
Black London: Life Before Emancipation by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

4.0

I thought this was excellent -- an eminently readable account of the lives of black people living in Britain in the eighteenth century thereabouts. At one point it pretty much becomes a string of known historical black British people's life stories, but that's the kind of thing I like, so I didn't object. Of course part of the reason why it was so interesting is because it's relatively difficult to find such details of non-white people in history, compared to the vast amount of material that's to be found on white people's lives. Only relatively difficult, though, I should say; there's obviously a fair amount of stuff out there.

Educational and interesting! I liked it. Went on to start reading Ignatius Sancho's letters; he is delightful!