Henry Redhead Yorke, Colonial Radical
Subtitle: Politics and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1790-1813
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781848935976
Subjects: Radicals; Great britain, politics and government, 18th century; Great britain, politics and government, 19th century; Europe, politics and government, 1789-1900
Description: "This is a political, cultural and intellectual biography of the neglected but important figure, Henry Redhead Yorke. A West Indian of African/British descent, born into a slave society but educated in Georgian England, he developed a complex identity to which politics was key. The most revolutionary radical in Britain between 1793-5, Yorke then recanted his radicalism and died a loyalist gentleman. This book raises important issues about the impact of "outsider" politics in England and the complexities of politicization and identity construction in the Atlantic World. It restores a forgotten black writer to his due place in history"--