Description:
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.
Review Quotes:
'The remarkable list of activities pursued by Williams throughout his life is enough to mark him out as a figure of some historical importance. It is surely something of an historiographical scandal that he continues to be widely neglected...Sherwood's book should therefore be celebrated for the detailed historical reconstruction it provides of Williams's life and times.' -Caribbean Review of Books