Billy Waters is Dancing
Or, How a Black Sailor Found Fame in Regency Britain
ISBN: HB: 9780300267686,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
352 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 70 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 70 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.
The story of William Waters, Black street performer in Regency London, and how his huge celebrity took on a life of its own.
Every child in Regency London knew Billy Waters, the celebrated "King of the Beggars." Likely born into enslavement in 1770...
HB:
25.00 GBP
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