ISBN : 9782296128033

THE BLACK PRESENCE: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF BLACK BRITONS

James Walvin



The history of black people in England has moved in one generation
from a position of marginality to a much more central and important
location in historiography. Once viewed as a curiosity, it is now clear
that it provides a remarkable entrée to neglected issues in the broader
history of England. Firstly, it speaks to the history of the English
people as a more variegated collection of identities than previously
imagined. More significantly perhaps it provides a way into the
English involvement with peoples of the wider world, more especially
with those of African descent caught in the African diaspora.