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Gretchen Gerzina. Black London: Life Before Emancipation. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1995. 244 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by
Anthony G. Barthelemy University of Miami
African American Review, Volume 31, Number 3 1997 Anthony G. Bar\helemy
Black London undertakes to dispel the falsehood that England did not become a multiethnic society until the twentieth century. Gerzina musters abundant, incontrovertible evidence to prove that there were significant numbers of Africans in England as early as 1596. Some of the evidence has appeared elsewhere, and unfortunately Gerzina does not always seem to be familiar with some earlier work on the subject of Africans in preeighteenth-century England. However, when she delves into the daily lives of Africans in the eighteenth-century London, she produces much new and interesting...