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The Axe Laid To The Root

The Story of Robert Wedderburn

ISBN-13: 9781870518987

Contributor(s): Martin Hoyles

Subject: Black & Asian Studies

Publisher Imprint: Hansib Publications

Publication Date: 01-10-2004

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£8.99

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About the book

Robert Wedderburn was one of the key campaigners against slavery at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was born in Jamaica and came to England at the age of sixteen. 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.