Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500–1677: Imprints of the InvisibleContaining an urgently needed archival database of historical evidence, this volume includes both a consolidated presentation of the documentary records of black people in Tudor and Stuart England, and an interpretive narrative that confirms and significantly extends the insights of current theoretical excursus on race in early modern England. Here for the first time Imtiaz Habib collects the scattered references to black people-whether from Africa, India or America-in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and arranges them into a systematic, chronological descriptive index. He offers an extended historical and theoretical interpretation of the records in six chapters, which serve as an introductory guide to the index even as they articulate a specific argument about the meaning of the records. Both the archival information and interpretive scholarship provide a strong framework from which future historical debates on race in early modern England can proceed. |
Contents
Elizabethan London Black Records The Writing of Absence | |
Black Records of SeventeenthCentury London A Benign Neglect and | |
Black People outside London 15581677 The Provincial Backdrop | |
Indians and Others The Protocolonial Dream | |
Afterword | |
Chronological Index of Records of Black People 15001677 | |
Works Cited | |
Other editions - View all
Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677: Imprints of the Invisible Imtiaz H. Habib Limited preview - 2008 |
Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677: Imprints of the Invisible Imtiaz Habib No preview available - 2020 |
Common terms and phrases
African Agas map AHTS Aldgate archives baptism baptized Barnstaple black citations black person black presence black records black subject black woman Blackamore Blackman blak Botolph Bristol Burial Catherine chapter Christening Christian cited city's Clerkenwell County court cultural decades Deptford described Devon Diary documentary Earl earlier early modern England early modern English early Tudor East India Edinburgh Elizabeth Elizabethan London England enslavement entries essay ethnic February George Hakluyt Hart Street Hawkins Henry Henry VIII House household Iberian identity Indian Jacobean James John John Stow later Location Item London records maids marriage Mary mentioned merchant modern English black Moore Negro Northamptonshire notations Olave Peter Peter Fryer Plymouth political population Portuguese racial Record Office Registers of St reign Richard Royal disbursement Scotland servant seventeenth century sixteenth century Slave Trade slavery social Spanish Stepney surname Survey of London taubronar Thomas visible voyages Ward Westminster William women