Old Print Media, Radical Ideas, and Vernacular Performance in the Life and Work of Robert Wedderburn and Henry Box Brown

Abstract

This chapter explores the performative and political careers of two key radicals in the nineteenth century Black Atlantic, the Jamaican-born British proto-anarchist Robert Wedderburn (c.1762 -1835?) and the escaped slave and African American abolitionist, Henry Box Brown (c. 1815 - ?). It discusses their political meetings and polemical publications which enabled them to create an audience for their political interventions