Peter Fryer 
Staying Power [PDF ebook] 
The History of Black People in Britain

Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture of two thousand years of Black presence in Britain.



First published in the ’80s, amidst race riots and police brutality, Fryer’s history performed a deeply political act; revealing how Africans, Asians and their descendants had long been erased from British history. By rewriting black Britons into the British story, showing where they influenced political traditions, social institutions and cultural life, was – and is – a deeply effective counter to a racist and nationalist agenda.



This new edition includes the classic introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack, in addition to a brand-new foreword by Guardian journalist Gary Younge, which examines the book’s continued significance today as we face Brexit and a revival of right wing nationalism.

Tabella dei contenuti

Foreword by Gary Younge

Introduction by Paul Gilroy

Preface

1. ‘Those Kinde of People’

2. ‘Necessary Implements’

3. Britain’s Slave Ports

4. The Black Community Takes Shape

5. Eighteenth-Century Voices

6. Slavery and the Law

7. The Rise of English Racism

8. Up from Slavery

9. Challenges to Empire

10. Under Attack

11. The Settlers

12. The New Generation

Appendices

Notes

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

Circa l’autore

Gary Younge is a journalist, author and broadcaster. He is editor-at-large for The Guardian. His latest book is Another Day in the Death of America (Guardian Faber Publishing, 2017).