Old Print Media, Radical Ideas, and Vernacular Performance in the Life and Work of Robert Wedderburn and Henry Box Brown

Rice, Alan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-2215-4727 (2016) Old Print Media, Radical Ideas, and Vernacular Performance in the Life and Work of Robert Wedderburn and Henry Box Brown. In: Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender: Transcultural Perspectives. Routledge, pp. 23-34. ISBN Hbk: 978-1-138-68268-9;

[thumbnail of Author Accepted Manuscript]
Preview
PDF (Author Accepted Manuscript) - Accepted Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives.

283kB

Official URL: https://www.routledge.com/Performing-Ethnicity-Per...

Abstract

This chapter explores the performative and political careers of two key radicals in the nineteenth century Black Atlantic, the Jamaican-born British proto-anarchist Robert Wedderburn (c.1762 -1835?) and the escaped slave and African American abolitionist, Henry Box Brown (c. 1815 - ?). It discusses their political meetings and polemical publications which enabled them to create an audience for their political interventions.


Repository Staff Only: item control page