Pluto Press Chapter Title: Challenges to empire Book Title: Staying Power Book Subtitle: The History of Black People in Britain Book Author(s): PETER FRYER Published by: Pluto Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctt183gztr.13 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Pluto Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Staying Power This content downloaded from 86.161.91.160 on Mon, 15 Jun 2020 08:06:17 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 9. Challenges to empire The aim of this chapter is to describe the lives and achievements of some of the black people who lived in Britain between about 1830 and 1918. Some were born here; others, born in Africa, the West Indies, the United States, and India, made a permanent home here or stayed for months or years. They were active in politics, medicine, law, business, the theatre, music, dance, sport, journalism, local affairs. They included writers and men of God, orators and enter tainers, two editors, a nurse, and a photographer. One, born in Chatham, was transported for life as a working-class rebel.