Black and British: A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors'

by David Olusoga

In 1852 Henry Box Brown was the victim of an incredibly vicious and racialized attack by the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Herald, which dismissed his audiences as the ‘shoeless daughters of the slums and alleys’ and him as a ‘bejewelled and oily negro’. Brown sued the editor and won £100 in damages.38