Dangerous Freedom

by Lawrence Scott

Book Overview

This radical and moving historical novel weaves fact with fiction to reveal "the great deception" exercised by the powerful on a mixed race child born in the late 18th century and brought up in the London home of England's Lord Chief Justice.

Dido Belle was the daughter of an African-born slave and the sea-faring nephew of Lord Mansfield. She was freed only on Mansfield's death and became Elizabeth D'Aviniere on her marriage. Scott imagines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1999776860
• ISBN13: 9781999776862
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Papillote Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"