Description: The first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian
Review Quotes: A History Today Book of the Year 2025
"A significant contribution to British working-class, abolitionist, and Atlantic history."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Absorbing, eloquent, and poignant."--John Coffey, American Historical Review "Hanley masterfully reconstructs the fascinating life and underworld milieu of Wedderburn, the biracial seaman, tailor, blasphemer, preacher, pornographer, brothel-keeper, and outspoken opponent of the British regimes of slavery and labor."--Vincent Carretta, author of Equiano, the African "Ryan Hanley's extensive research on activist Robert Wedderburn is well-deserving of prominence in the growing pantheon of black lives brought back into the attention of scholars and lay readers."--Gretchen Gerzina, author of Black England