English language
Published 2014 by HarperCollins Publishers.
Paula Byrne: Belle (2014, HarperCollins Publishers)
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- 978-0-06-231078-1
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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.
Subjects
- Women, biography
- Women, great britain
- Racially mixed people
- Slaves
- Nobility, great britain
- Antislavery movements, great britain
- Great britain, race relations