History of slavery, and in particular, the experiences of enslaved women. We already had a chance to look at the case of Harriet Jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. There, jacobs introduced us, if you will, to that dimension of slavery that is exemplified, and we might say central to the experience of slave women, and that is sexual violence. We will come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today, that of celia. We also looked at the wpa narratives, and one of the things we noticed about those narratives was the extent to which some issues, including sexual violence, violence generally, and sexual violence, in particular, was rather muted in the slave narratives. And so here we have an with this case to take another pass at this question, to try to see this dimension of slavery through the experience of celia. So, why do i say try to see this dimension of slavery . As you have all begun to see in your readings for today, there are ma
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Britains Toys were local boys
Posted by Hugh on November 13, 2020 at 18:44 in History of Harringay
I m not sure how old you need to be for the name
Britains Toys to cast something of a magic spell. But Britains soldiers, cowboys & indians and animals were as much a part of my childhood as the x-box is for kids today. So, I was interested to discover recently that Britain s was a local firm.
Britains was established by William Britain (1828-1906) a toy maker of Birmingham, England, in about 1845. He moved his family to a house at 28 Lambton Road, Hornsey Rise, and there gradually established a cottage industry involving the family, producing ingenious mechanical clockwork toys, but these were too expensive to be mass produced.