The Things You Know
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madrobins....vs. what is actually so.
On the advice of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
al_zorra I am reading Gretchen Gerzina's Black London, which is fascinating. Perhaps the most fascinating thing of all was when Gerzina recounts that, while doing initial research she was in a London antiquarian bookstore, searching for material about people of color in England, and was told roundly that there were no people of color in England prior to World War II.
Say what?
More about the history of Africans in England, and what everybody knows, at sarahtolerance.com.
On the advice of
al_zorra I am reading Gretchen Gerzina's Black London, which is fascinating. Perhaps the most fascinating thing of all was when Gerzina recounts that, while doing initial research she was in a London antiquarian bookstore, searching for material about people of color in England, and was told roundly that there were no people of color in England prior to World War II.Say what?
More about the history of Africans in England, and what everybody knows, at sarahtolerance.com.