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Black Preachers in Georgian Portsmouth
A public lecture by Dr Ryan Hanley, lecturer in Modern British History, University of Exeter, celebrating Black History Month.
Portsmouth is not the first place that springs to mind when we imagine the eighteenth-century black British presence. But, as ‘the world’s greatest naval port’, it served as one of the main entry points for African and African-American sailors travelling to Britain. When they arrived among the dirt, noise and drunkenness of the industrialising port city, some of these
Portsmouth is not the first place that springs to mind when we imagine the eighteenth-century black British presence. But, as ‘the world’s greatest naval port’, it served as one of the main entry points for African and African-American sailors travelling to Britain. When they arrived among the dirt, noise and drunkenness of the industrialising port city, some of these
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University of Portsmouth
King Henry Building
King Henry I Street
Portsmouth Hampshire PO1 2DY
Wed 16 Oct 2019
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