On Hopkins Street
Chris Townsend: Radical Robert Wedderburn, 6 November 2025
Robert Wedderburn: British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist
by Ryan Hanley.
Yale, 248 pp., £18.99, February,978 0 300 27235 2 Show More
by Ryan Hanley.
Yale, 248 pp., £18.99, February,
“... formative for Wedderburn, who dedicated The Horrors of Slavery to Wilberforce. It’s crucial to Ryan Hanley’s larger argument in Robert Wedderburn that the distinctiveness of Wedderburn’s abolitionism – its radicalism, its extremity, its refusal of establishment codes of respectability – should be unaffected by Wilberforce. This is reasonable ... ”
