Author

Publication

2014 - , New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

70,750 words, Guess

Page Count

283 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100062310771
  • ISBN-139780062310774
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014007447
  • OCLC Control Number871200099
  • Better World Books9780062310774
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC941.07/3092/2
  • DDCB
  • LCCDA483.B45 B97 2014
and 1 more
  • LCCDA483.B45B97 2014

Description

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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Other Editions

  • Belle: the slave daughter and the Lord Chief Justice2014-01-01

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