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SUMMARY:Robert Wedderburn: Anti-racist solidarity and the life of Britain
 ’s most radical Black abolitionist - Dr Ryan Hanley (University of Exete
 r)
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250502T183000
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Ryan Hanley explores the extraordinary life of charismatic 
 British-Jamaican radical preacher\, abolitionist and writer\, Robert Wedde
 rburn\, asking what it can teach us about solidarity and resistance in tod
 ay’s increasingly unstable world.\n\nBorn in 1762 in Jamaica\, and raise
 d by an Obeah-woman in the aftermath of the largest uprising of enslaved p
 eople in Jamaican history\, Robert Wedderburn was a born rebel. When Brita
 in teetered on the brink of revolution in the early nineteenth century\, h
 e rose through the ranks of London’s insurgent working-class underworld 
 to become Britain’s most radical and charismatic anti-slavery activist\,
  openly calling for the enslaved and exploited wage labourers to rise up t
 ogether and claim their liberty.\n\n*Dr Ryan Hanley* is Senior Lecturer in
  Modern British History at the University of Exeter and a 2024/5 Visiting 
 Fellow in History at Mansfield College. His books include _Beyond Slavery 
 and Abolition: Black British Writing\, c.1770-1830_ (Cambridge University 
 Press\, 2018) and _Robert Wedderburn: British Insurrectionary\, Jamaican A
 bolitionist_ (Yale University Press\, 2025).\nSpeakers:\nDr Ryan Hanley (U
 niversity of Exeter)
LOCATION:Mansfield College (Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium)\, Mansfield Road
  OX1 3TF
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/04ef81a5-ba6f-4e9b-9e45-e7d6de366b4f/
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