Belle
Subtitle: the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
By: Paula Byrne
Edition: First Harper Perennial edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780062310774
Subjects: Race relations; Family; Racially mixed people; Nobility; Slaves; Illegitimate children; Antislavery movements; Biography; History
Description: The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to live with her great-uncle, the Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery. Growing up in his lavish estate, Dido was raised as a sister and companion to her white cousin, Elizabeth. When a joint portrait of the girls, commissioned by Mansfield, was unveiled, eighteenth-century England was shocked to see a black woman and white woman depicted as equals.
Notes: "First published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-283).
Table of contents: title: The Girl in the Picture; title: The Captain; title: The Slave; title: The White Stuff; title: "Silver-Tongued Murray"; title: The Adopted Daughters; title: Black London; title: Mansfield the Moderniser; title: Enter Granville Sharp; title: The Somerset Ruling; title: The Merchant of Liverpool; title: A Riot in Bloomsbury; title: A Visitor from Boston; title: The Zong Massacre; title: Gregson v. Gilbert; title: Changes at Kenwood; title: The Anti-Saccharites; title: Mrs. John Davinier; title: Appendix: Jane Austen's Mansfield Connection.