Sugar, spices and human cargo : an early Black history of Greenwich /by Joan Anim-Addo.

"Sugar, spices and human cargo traces the lives of black settlers in early Greenwich of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. From Cornelius the blackamore of Lee in 1593 to dying lascars in the summer of 1796, the book pieces together shards of a multicultural, multiracial history that can no longer be denied. Why was Olaudah Equiano keen to return to Maze Hill after his second spell of West Indian slavery? Who were some of the eighteenth century black pensioners of Greenwich and what connection is there between Charlton and the East Indies? These are only a few of the questions addressed in this new work which uncovers and reinterprets an important dimension of Greenwich's local history."--Provided by the publisher.