Reconstructing the Black Past: Blacks in Britain 1780-1830 American - 20th Century Alda do Espirito Santo

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and relationships

including “John Henrik Clarke and Issues in Afrikan Historiography: Implications of Pan Afrikan Nationalism in Interpreting the Afrikan Experience in the United States” in Pan African Nationalism in the Americas: The Life and Times of John Henrik Clarke published by Africa World Press

it highlights the importance of archaeology in completing the historical records of the Atlantic world's Africans

Butler provides many details of this period for the first time in English and supplements published sources with original oral histories

Reconstructing the Black Past: Blacks in Britain 1780-1830 American - 20th Century Alda do Espirito SantoThis book examines the character and composition of the black population of Britain between 1780 and 1830, previous studies of which have been hampered by a lack of demographic evidence. Drawing heavily from data collected from parish registers, contemporary newspapers and journals, parliamentary papers and the records of merchants involved in the slave trade, the author ventures beyond existing research to examine the age structure and sex ratios of