{"product_id":"9781554816897","title":"The Horrors of Slavery and The Axe Laid to the Root","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Wedderburn was born under the lash in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaican plantation society, the illegitimate child of a plantation owner and an enslaved Black woman. Despite the circumstances of his birth, Wedderburn would become one of the foremost abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Migrating to Great Britain as a young man, he established himself as a radical preacher and political critic in London. This volume reprints his life narrative, \u003cem\u003eThe Horrors of Slavery\u003c\/em\u003e and his fiery periodical, \u003cem\u003eThe Axe Laid to the Root\u003c\/em\u003e. Taken together, Wedderburn’s writing and his public life provide a vision of transatlantic liberation and multiracial working-class agitation for social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe introduction and notes in this new edition uniquely situate Wedderburn and his work within a lively intersection of his Black Atlantic, Caribbean, and British contexts. This edition illustrates Wedderburn’s enduring relevance for scholarship in Atlantic studies, Black studies, political theology, racial capitalism, and Romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65305455984989,"sku":null,"price":17.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781554816897.jpg?v=1788920352","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9781554816897","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}