1st Edition

Victorian Attitudes to Race

By Christine Bolt Copyright 1971
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

288 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