1st Edition

Victorian Attitudes to Race

By Christine Bolt Copyright 1971
    274 Pages
    by Routledge

    274 Pages
    by Routledge

    During the nineteenth century there emerged in England an increasingly hostile view of ethnic minorities. Dr Bolt traces, from about 1850, the changing attitudes of Victorians to 'inferior' races., especially on black Africans.

    Chapter 1 I The Scientific View; Chapter 2 II America: the slave made free; Chapter 3 III Jamaica, 1865: the turning point; Chapter 4 IV Africa rediviva?; Chapter 5 V The Indian Empire; Chapter 6 VI Conclusion;

    Biography

    C. BOLT