An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor

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.

• | Author: Danell Jones
• | Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1849049602
• | ISBN-13: 9781849049603