Belle
the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
by Paula Byrne
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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.
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Race relations, Family, Racially mixed people, Nobility, Slaves, Illegitimate children, Antislavery movements, Biography, History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Women, biography, Women, great britain, Nobility, great britain, Antislavery movements, great britain, Great britain, race relations, Enslaved personsPlaces
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Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
2014, HarperCollins Publishers
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006231078X 9780062310781
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Belle: The True Story of Dido Belle
2014, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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0007548117 9780007548118
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Belle: the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
2014
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"First published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-283).
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