Robert Wedderburn: British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist

by Ryan Hanley

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 (1762-1834/5) 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300272359
• ISBN13: 9780300272352
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 248 Pages