Kingsley, Charles

has biography | a une biographie: British clergyman, historian and novelist in the nineteenth century.

Kingsley came from a family with ties to British slave-ownership in the Caribbean. His maternal grandfather, Nathan Lucas (1761-1828), was a slave-owner who owned estates in Barbados and Guiana. This personal relationship to the legacies of chattel slavery extended into Kingsley's own life, as evidenced by his support for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, or indeed his involvement in the Eyre Defence Committee in 1865 in defence of Governor Eyre's brutal repression of the Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica. Kingsley also recorded his travel experiences in the Caribbean in the work At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies (1871).
was born | est né: 12 June 1819
died in | est mort par: 23 January 1875
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; Legacies of British Slavery; Art UK; National Portrait Gallery; The Victorian Web - Race and Religion in the Victorian Age: Charles Kingsley, Governor Eyre and the Morant Bay Rising; Catherine Nealy Judd, 'Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies: Industrial England, The Irish Famine, and the American Civil War', Victorian Literature and Culture, 45, 1 (2017) 179-204; Google Books - Charles Kingsley, At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies (1871); Catherine Hall, ‘Reconfiguring Race: The Stories the Slave-Owners Told’, in Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain, ed. by Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper, Keith McClelland, Katie Donington, and Rachel Lang (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 163–202

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