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The Axe Laid to the Root
by
Martin Hoyles
Paperback 120pp
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ISBN: 1-870518-98-5
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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. 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.
Includes 18 black & white illustrations
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