Black Agents Provocateurs: 250 Years of Black British Writing, History and the Law, 1770-2020

Black Agents Provocateurs: 250 Years of Black British Writing, History and the Law, 1770-2020
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Publisher : Helen Thomas
Total Pages : 950
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ISBN-10 : 9781838159504
ISBN-13 : 1838159509
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Download or read book Black Agents Provocateurs: 250 Years of Black British Writing, History and the Law, 1770-2020 written by Helen Thomas and published by Helen Thomas. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Agents Provocateurs: 250 Years of Black British Writing, History and the Law, 1770-2020 is a comprehensive analysis the invaluable contributions that black writers in Britain have made to British society over the last 250 years. This book closely examines the lives, trials and works of: British slaves in the eighteenth century, black authors, historians and medics in the nineteenth century, and black poets, playwrights, novelists and intellectuals in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It also highlights their contributions to legal changes, such as the Abolition of Slavery Act (1833), the Criminal Appeal Act (1907) and the Race Relations Act (1965), as well as the adverse effects that laws such as the Criminal Evidence Act (1984), the Asylum and Immigration Acts (1996) and the Coronavirus Act (2020) have had upon black lives in Britain.


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