Gardener's Perpetual Almanack: A Book of Days

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Martin Hoyles

Gardening & Landscape Design

Thames & H.

Robert Wedderburn was one of the key campaigners against slavery at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was born in 1762 in Jamaica of a Scottish father and a Jamaican mother. At the age of sixteen he went to sea and ended up in England, where he became a tailor and eventually joined a radical political group called the Spenceans. Wedderburn became famous for the revolutionary rhetoric with which he entertained and educated the crowds at Hopkins Street Chapel. He campaigned for equality in England, the land to be restored to the people, and freedom for the slaves in the West Indies. Much of the Black experience in Britain, however, has been hidden from history. This book will help rectify the situation in an entertaining and informative way. It tells the story of Wedderburn's childhood in Jamaica and his experience of slavery, his conversion to Methodism in England and then his commitment to radical politics, which landed him in prison for two years. The Home Secretary called him a 'notorious firebrand' and his oratory was so powerful that he was put on the Government's secret list of 33 leading reformers.

Axe Laid To The Root

Biographies & Memoirs

Turnaround

William Cuffay was a leader of chartism, which was the largest political movement ever seen in Britain. He became involved in a secret revolutionary committee which was planning an uprising in London. He was arrested, tried and convicted of levying war against the Queen. He was sentenced to transportation for life in Tasmania. He remained actively involved in politics and later pardoned, but died a pauper in the workhouse. Cuffay's reputation was immense, yet he has been forgotten over the years. This book aims to restore him as a key figure in British history.

William Cuffay

Historical

Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited

Cugoano Against Slavery

History

World

Before Windrush: West Indians in Britain

Asher Hoyles

Hansib Publications

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