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After Abolition
With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the Emancipation Act of 1833, Britain seemed to wash its hands of slavery. Not so, according to Marika Sherwood, who sets the record straight in this provocative new book. In fact, Sherwood demonstrates that Britain continued to contribute to the slave trade well after 1807, even into the twentieth century. Drawing on government documents and contemporary reports as well as published sources, she describes how slavery remained very much a part of British investment, commerce and empire, especially in funding and supplying goods for the trade in slaves and in the use of slave-grown produce. The nancial world of the City in London also depended...
Origins of Pan-Africanism
This book recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams through original research, each chapter set in the social context of the times, providing insight not only into a remarkable man who has been heretofore virtually written out of history, but also into the African Diaspora in the UK a century ago.
Pan-African History
Brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of he last two-hundred years.
Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War
The history of a Pan-Africanist movement based in Britain and its role in the Cold War in Africa.
Kwame Nkrumah
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Claudia Jones
A new edition of the groundbreaking biography of activist, newspaper editor and community organiser, Claudia Jones, featuring a preface by Black feminist writer, Lola Olufemi, and an appendix of new research. This is the first book in Lawrence Wishart's new Black Women Radicals series.
Reparations to Africa
Given the long history of European and American mistreatment of Africa, what is the just measure of Western obligations to the peoples of this continent? The author analyzes the arguments for reparations from multiple disciplinary perspectives, and suggests alternative means to restorative justice.
Comrade Sak
Marc Wadsworth's biography of Shapurji Saklatvala examines the ways in which the great radical black MP tackled issues affecting the left in the 1920s that are still of great relevance today in the 1990s.
