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Robert Wedderburn
British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist
Series: Black Lives
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The first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian Robert Wedderburn (1762β1834/5) was one of the most charismatic, irascible, and radical intellectuals of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Born to an enslaved woman...
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The first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian
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The first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian
Robert Wedderburn (1762β1834/5) was one of the most charismatic, irascible, and radical intellectuals of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Born to an enslaved woman and a slavemaster in Jamaica, and moving in the radical working-class circles of London, Wedderburn made his name as a fiery political writer and oratorβbefore dying, forgotten, in poverty.
Among the few abolitionists bold enough to publicly call for the enslaved in the British West Indies to rise up and violently overthrow their colonial "masters," Wedderburn was also among the most outspoken andβamid an increasingly repressive British establishmentβdangerous advocates for domestic political reform and working-class rights.
From award-winning scholar Ryan Hanley, this is the first full-length biography of a man increasingly recognised as central to Black radical political thought in the Revolutionary Atlantic. Tapping newly rediscovered sources, Hanley details Wedderburn's extraordinary public and private life, explores the central influence of enslaved women on his political ideas, and offers fresh analysis of his contributions to British political thought and activism.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780300272352
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 25 February 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Illustration: 5 b-w illus.
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 248
About the Author
Ryan Hanley is lecturer in modern British history at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, 1770β1830 and coeditor of Britainβs History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery. He is the winner of the Alexander and Whitfield Prizes and the Philip Leverhulme Prize. He lives in Bristol, UK.
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