This Represents the Title
of the Thesis
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the
requirements for the Degree
of Master of Arts in History
in the University of Canterbury
by A. N. Other
University of Canterbury
2006
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ..............................................................................................2
Abstract ...............................................................................................................3
Glossary ...............................................................................................................4
Chapter 2 .............................................................................................................5
The development of a race relations action-structure Race Relations in
the British Isles: 1700 to the First World War ...............................................5
Heading 1 .............................................................................................................8
Heading 2 .......................................................................................................8
Heading 3 .................................................................................................8
Cartoons Appendix ............................................................................................9
References .........................................................................................................12
List of Cartoons (Figures, Tables or Plates)
Cartoon 1: PowerPoint .........................................................................................9
Cartoon 2: The World ..........................................................................................9
Cartoon 3: Teacher and students .......................................................................10
Cartoon 4: Teacher with 3 students sitting ........................................................10
Cartoon 5: Three blind dots ...............................................................................11
Acknowledgments
The author wishes to express sincere appreciation to Professors Smith and
Jones for their assistance in the preparation of this manuscript. In addition,
special thanks to Dr. Elsa Leavitt whose familiarity with the needs and
ideas of the class was helpful during the early programming phase of this
undertaking. Thanks also to the members of the school council for their
valuable input.
Abstract
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Glossary
Asteroid. A very small planet ranging from 1,000 km to less than one km
in diameter. Asteroids are found commonly around other larger planets.
Atmosphere. The gaseous mass that surrounds any planet, including
Earth.
Density. The number (as of particles) per unit of measure.
Galaxy. A system of stars independent from all other systems.
Moon. The natural satellite of any planet.
Orbit. The path taken by a satellite around a celestial body.
Planet. A large, nonluminous mass, usually with its own moons, which
revolves around a star. Planets are found everywhere in the galaxy.
Solar. Having to do with the sun.
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Chapter 2
The development of a race relations actionstructure Race Relations in the British Isles:
1700 to the First World War
From the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 until the abolition of slavery
throughout the British Empire in 1833, the economy Britain was tied, in some
measure, to the fortunes of the African slave trade. In the colonies of the East
Indies and the southern United States, and later in South Africa black
plantation labour produced wealth that flowed home to Britain. In Britain
itself, slave labour did not take root, although retired planters and a rising
commercial middle class sometimes used slaves as servants. A small Negro
population was living in London by 1700, and some sources have estimated
that by 1700 there were between 14,000 and 20,000 Negroes residing in
greater London out of a total population of some 123,000.1 They were mainly
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This would be about the same percentage as Negroes constitute of the present Chicago population. Little
cites these estimates (Kenneth L. Little, Negroes in Britain: A Study of Racial Relations in English Society
[London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., 1947], p. 170), but notes that C. M. MacInnes, in England
and Slavery (London: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1934), doubts if the total slave population in England ever rose
above 15,000 or at most 20,000Ó. One of the leading authorities on the social history of the period, M.
Dorothy George, puts the number of Negro slaves at between 14,000 and 15,000. She states that a large
proportion of these must have been in London, where they seem to have lived chiefly in the eastern and
riverside parishes. (SeeM. Dorothy George, London Life in the XVIIIth Centuary (New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1926), p131.)
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slaves and domestic servants living in white homes, and of their relations with
whites of their own class, one student has written:
… colour sensibility as such was very little in evidence . . . . No
doubt Negroes in general were thought of more as slaves and
servants than anything here. person simply on the ground of his
colour.2
During this same period there were about 10,000 Irish and 20,000 Jews in
London. Hostility towards them was great, and one student has said:
All foreigners in London who has an outlandish look were likely
to be roughly treated, or at least abused, by the mob. Jews were
very unpopular. . . . Jew-baiting became a sport, like cockthrowing or bull-baiting, or pelting some poor wretch in the
pillory.3
There were individuals among both the adherents of Conservative and Liberal
humanitarian ideological systems who felt that, even though slavery flourished
in the colonies, it should not be permitted on British soil. There were others
who felt the slave trade, if not slavery itself, should be abolished. One zealous
figure, Granville Sharp, through a series of court cases, was able to have
slavery on British soil declared illegal, by judicial act, in 1772. But the Negro
population referred to above continued to persist, and even to increase. Negro
slaves from the West Indies often attempted to jump ship and claim freedom
2
Little, Negroes in Britain, p. 203
3
George, London Life in the XVIIIth Century, p. 132
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because they were on British soil. Of these individuals who were claiming
sanctuary, one magistrate wrote:
... they [slaves] no sooner arrive here then they put themselves on
a footing with other servants, become intoxicated with liberty,
grow refractory, and either by persuasion of other, or from their
own inclinations, begin to expect wages according to their own
opinion of their merits.4
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Little, Negroes in Britain, p. 176
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Cartoons Appendix
Cartoon 1: PowerPoint
Cartoon 2: The World
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Cartoon 3: Teacher and students
Cartoon 4: Teacher with 3 students sitting
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Cartoon 5: Three blind dots
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References
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