{"product_id":"black-voices-on-britain-9781529072617","title":"Black Voices on Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProfessor Hakim Adi draws on a variety of published works, all of which describe powerful experiences: James Gronniosaw and his family endure poverty, illness and unemployment; Mary Prince is driven out by her cruel owners and turns to London charities for help; Frederick Douglass, on a lecture tour around Britain, reveals how the Christian clergy built churches with slave-owners' money; and William Wells Brown gives his impressions of England as he travels around a country which welcomes him more readily than America. These and other voices offer a fascinating and thought-provoking portrayal of Black experiences in Britain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProf. Hakim Adi is Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at the University of Chichester. A prolific author, his books include\u003ci\u003e West Africans in Britain 1900-60: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism, Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787, Pan-Africanism: A History\u003c\/i\u003e and he is editor of \u003ci\u003eBlack British History: New Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e. Hakim has appeared in many documentary films, on TV and on radio and has written widely on the history of Africa and the African Diaspora, including three history books for children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MacMillan Collector's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50444725125394,"sku":"9781529072617","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fe024052-3fa9-4b89-8aa6-94c8c946f6db.jpg?v=1729688032","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-voices-on-britain-9781529072617","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}