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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...
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.
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
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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
What is the just measure of Western obligations to Africa? As Africans and their supporters mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the United States and Great Britain, the question becomes increasingly salient. Calls for reparations for the evils of slavery, as well as for past colonial and current economic and political abuses, can be heard across Africa and the African diaspora. Human rights scholar Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann examines these calls for redress in Reparations to Africa. Her study analyzes the reparations movement from the perspectives of law, philosophy, political science, and sociology. While acknowledging the brutal background of the slave trade and...
Many Struggles
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