Monday 14 May 2012

Interracial Marriage in 18th Century Britain

OK it has been ages since I blogged, 2009 to be exact.  I was going to begin a whole new blog but decided to keep it but start from where I am at now.  I am doing a PhD in theology but which encompasses history, sociology, gender studies and the list goes on.  Specifically I am looking at Black pentecostal women in the British church this will be my focus but there will be so many other areas and things of interest in my purview.  I am finding out new things every time I read and this blog will function as a place to put things I have found interesting.  Sometimes with comment, sometimes not. Please feel free to comment if you feel the need.  Blessings and I look forward to discussions.


So I have to do literature surveys and the stuff you come across.....

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/work_community/docs/belisarius_list.htm

document


This is the manifest for Belisarius, a ship that set sail for Sierra Leone in 1787.  The transcript below shows a transcript of the manifest. Whilst for hundreds of years interracial marriages in the US were illegal (as recently 1967 in Virginia) the manifest shows that black women were married to white men and black men were married in Britain from at least the 1800's. The relationship of British Blacks to British Whites are different to that of our American cousins.

Unfortunately the story does not end well of the 350 people who sailed only 60 survived.  Some dieing during the voyage, others at the hand of slave traders, native people, the climate or disease.

The Names of Men Women & Children who are now on board the Belisarius
Capt[ai]n Sill lying at the Motherbank 16 Feb[ruar]y 1787.
1
James Stiphson
30
Anth[on]y Hill
58
John Stewart
2
Jos[e]ph Taylor
1
Will[ia]m Anderson
9
Jno [John] Lewis
3
W[illia]m Theads
2
Will[ia]m Smith
60
Fra[nci]s Barlian
4
Ja[me]s White
3
Jno [John] Horne
1
Jno [John] Ramsey
5
Peter Grant
4
Edw[ar]d Smith
2
Jno [John] Thomas
6
Edw[ar]d Honeycot
5
Geo[rge] Hill
3
W[illia]m Hudson
7
Ja[me]s Murry
6
Jno [John] Thomas
4
Jno [John] Homan
8
Jos[e]ph Newman
7
Jno [John] Lewis
5
Jos[e]ph Hartford
9
Ja[me]s Neptune
8
Jno [John] Hall
6
Tho[ma]s Truman
10
Geo[rge] Jones
9
Jno [John] Wilson
7
Jno [John] Swithin
1
Ja[me]s Seaman
40
Will[ia]m Green
8
Lewis Latouch
2
John Thomas
1
Joseph Green Jun[io]r
9
Lewis Latouch Jun[io]r
3
Truro Ambo
2
Tho[ma]s Simms
70
Abr[aha]m Elliot Griffith
4
Jno [John] Solomon
3
Tho[ma]s Woodman
1
And[re]w James
5
Jos[e]ph Bromly
4
Ja[me]s Martin
2
Jos[e]ph George
6
Misheck Wright
5
W[illia]m Richardson
3
W[illia]m Close
7
Abraham Mathews
6
Fra[nci]s Durham
4
Geo[rge] Comfortable
8
Lewis Sterling
7
Jno [John] Jones
5
W[illia]m Lee
9
Charles Jones
8
Benj[ami]n Elliot
6
Jno [John] Jacob
20
George Brown
9
Jno [John] Marrine
7
Jno [John] Jacob Jun[io]r
1
W[illia]m Hoskins
50
Ja[me]s Marrine Jun[io]r
8
Jno [John] James
2
W[illia]m Williams
1
Geo[rge] Jones
9
W[illia]m Bromfield
3
John Thomas
2
Tho[ma]s Montague
80
Jno [John] Walter
4
John Thomas
3
Jno [John] Peters
5
Rich[ar]d Guthrow
1
Richard Bradley
6
Arch[ibal]d Stewart
4
Jno [John] Twine
81
Black Men
7
Jno [John] Lawrence
5
Christ[ophe]r Friday
8
Jno [John] W[illia]m Ramsay
6
Tho[ma]s Holder
9
Ja[me]s Reid
7
Tho[ma]s Holder Jun[io]r


Black Women Married to White Men
White Women Married to Black Men
1
Nancy Hughes
2
Hester Wright
1
Mary Bradley
3
Eliza[beth] Jones
2
Marg[are]t Allen
4
Jane Gosport
3
Barbary Thomas
5
Hannah Stewart
4
Eliza[beth] Brown
6
Sarah Simpson
5
Eliza[beth] Ramsey
7
Christ[ia]n Horn
6
Marg[are]t Jackson
8
Ann Watson
7
Mary Adams
9
Martha Green
8
Eliz[abeth] Demain
10
Hannah Richardson
9
Ann Holder
11
Hannah Twine
10
Amelia Homan
12
Sarah Lee
1
Marg[are]t Latouch
13
Peggy Smith
2
Ann Provey
14
Martha Smith
3
Rebecca Griffith
15
Eliza[beth] Richardson
4
Martha James
16
Eliza[beth] Hartford
5
Mary Ann Lee
17
Jane Baptist
16
Mary Jacob
18
Mary James
16
White Women
18
Black Women
White Women wanting to be Married
1
Mary Allen
2
Jane Gosport
3
Mary Adams
4
Eliz[abeth] Robinson
5
Milly Shimmings