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An African in Imperial London

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Hurst
Autor
Danell Jones
In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people inferior, Sierra Leonean writer A. B. C. Merriman-Labor claimed his right to describe the world as he found it. He looked at the Empire’s great capital and laughed. In this first biography of Merriman-Labor, Danell Jones describes the tragic spiral that pulled him down the social ladder from writer and barrister to munitions worker, from witty observer of the social order to patient in a state-run hospital for the poor. In restoring this extraordinary man to the pantheon of African observers of colonialism, she opens a window onto racial attitudes in Edwardian London. An African in Imperial London is a rich portrait of a great metropolis, writhing its way into a new century of appalling social inequity, world-transforming inventions, and unprecedented demands for civil rights.
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      Tootekood
      9781787386068
      Kirjastus
      Ilmumisaasta
      2021
      Leheküljed
      320
      Ribakood
      9781787386068
      Lisamise aeg
      16.12.2021
      ISBN
      9781787386068

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