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A selection of works with specific reference to Robert Wedderburn and slavery, the social, historical and political setting between 1770 and 1830, as well as more general publications on the subject of race and attitudes to mixed-race people.
The Horrors of Slavery Robert Wedderburn
Radical Underworld Iain McCalman
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age Iain McCalman
Romanticism and Slave Narratives Helen Thomas
Remember Me Asher & Martin Hoyles
Radical Culture - Discourse, Resistance & Surveillance David Worrall
The Many-Headed Hydra Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
"The Horrors of Slavery and other writings" Click on the link above to go to the order form |
Andrew
Gray ".....Robert Wedderburn, born of a Jamaican slave and her
oppressor, offers a unique insight into the Atlantic system. In an
extraordinary life he was an intimate witness to the horror of colonial
slavery, British naval life, the London labouring poor, the decline of the
independent artisan (he was an elite tailor), and early 19th century
British radicalism.
He
synthesised Afro-Jamaican and British evangelical religion, British
radical republicanism and agrarian utopianism, and traditions of slave
resistance and rebellion into an aggressive revolutionary theory and
practice. At
a time when the British state was vigorously hunting radicals and the
movement to abolish slavery was very active - and even in the face of a
visit in prison from the mythical saviour of slaves, William Wilberforce -
Wedderburn refused to reduce his political activism to the single issue of
abolition. |
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Order this book (UK purchasers)Radical
Underworld
Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840 Order from other OUP Sites around the world:
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Readership: Scholars and students of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British history and literature, particularly of Romanticism; cultural studies, especially those interested in popular culture. This is a paperback edition of a highly acclaimed study of English
popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government
`Terror' of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism. Challenging
conventional distinctions between `high' and `low' culture, Iain McCalman
brilliantly reveals the links between the political underworld and
literary culture, poverty, crime, and prophetic religion.
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Edited by Iain
McCalman, Director, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National
University, Canberra 794 pages, numerous illustrations, 246mm x 171mm |
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Click on the Cambridge University Press logo to go straight to the page to order "Romanticism and Slave Narratives" (UK orders) Title
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Romanticism and Slave NarrativesTransatlantic TestimoniesHelen Thomas
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Published by Hansib Publications & Ethos Publishing at �8.99
by Asher & Martin Hoyles ISBN 1 870518 62 4 30 biographies of mixed-race figures from past and present, including a piece on Robert Wedderburn. A book that "attempts to help the learning process. It challenges the view that being of mixed-race is simply a problem, it shows how belonging to more than one culture and tradition can be an advantage...." Martin Hoyles is a senior lecturer in Communication Studies and the University of East London. Published works include "The Politics of Childhood" (1989), "The Politics of Literacy" (1977), "Changing Childhood" (1979), "More Valuable than Gold" (1985). Asher Hoyles is a performance poet. She writes poetry in a variety of styles based on her experience as an Caribbean African who has grown up in the UK.
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by David Worrall Wayne State University Press ISBN 0-8143-2452-5
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Radical Culture
- Discourse, Resistance and Surveillance 1790-1820
This fascinating treatise of the spy culture in England between 1790 and 1820 dedicates a chapter to Robert Wedderburn, and reveals that he and his fellow radicals were under almost constant surveillance. Extracts from the reports of spies, informers and moles abound, a fascinating and unique insight into the revolutionary ideologies of those involved, their courage, their determination to speak out despite being constantly hounded by the government of the day, the ever-present threat of arrest and possible execution. In the following example Robert Wedderburn exhorts his audience to action, November 1819 ............... "Ministers have sacrificed the Welfare of the country to enrich themselves and it is now high time we look'd after them - but the Bloody Revolution is near at hand; yes the Bloody Revolution I say, because some of these Bloody Murdering thieves who would rob us of the Shirt from of our Backs will either be shot or lose their Heads; and to stimulate my sons I take care to show them their degraded situation and call them Cowards !!!" |
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Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker BEACON PRESSTHE MANY-HEADED HYDRASAILORS, SLAVES, COMMONERS, AND THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ATLANTIC"For most readers the tale told here will be completely new. For those already well acquainted with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the image of that age which they have been so carefully taught and cultivated will be profoundly challenged."�David Montgomery, author of Citizen WorkerRead an excerpt from the chapter on Robert Wedderburn "More than just a vivid illustration of the gains involved in thinking beyond the boundaries between nation-states. Here, in incendiary form, are essential elements for a people's history of our dynamic, transcultural present."�Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic "This is a marvelous book. Linebaugh and Rediker have done an extraordinary job of research into buried episodes and forgotten writings to recapture, with eloquence and literary flair, the lost history of resistance to capitalist conquest on both sides of the Atlantic."�Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States Peter Linebaugh, professor of history at the University of Toledo, is author of The London Hanged. He lives in Toledo, Ohio. Marcus Rediker, associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, is author of the award-winning Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. He lives in Pittsburgh. |
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