A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa, and the Caribbean who together reflect Black experience in Britain. A powerful anthology of writing by men and women of colour who lived, worked, campaigned, and travelled in Britain from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.In Black Voices on Britain, Professor Hakim Adi has gathered extracts from a fascinating and wide-ranging selection of published works, each of which relates a different and powerful experience: James Groniosaw, his wife and their children endure poverty, illness and unemployment; Mary Prince is driven out by her cruel owners and appeals to London charities to help her; Frederick Douglass, on a lecture tour in Britain, reveals how Christian clergy built churches with slave-owners' money; whilst William Wells Brown gives his impressions of Britain as he travels around a country which welcomes him more readily than America. The gathering of these and other famous Black voices offer a gripping, shocking and stirring portrayal of Black experience in Britain.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.