Henry Sylvester Williams was the first Black man admitted to the Bar in Cape Town and the founder of the African Association (later renamed the Pan-African Association). Find out more about his life story in this fascinating book by Marika Sherwood.
Through original research, Origins of Pan-Africanism is set in the social context of the times, providing insight not only into a remarkable man who has been heretofore virtually written out of history, but also into the African Diaspora in the UK a century ago.
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the...
Published June 22nd 2010 by Routledge
