African and Afro-Caribbean Repatriation, 1919-1922: Black Voices

by Jane L. Chapman

Book Overview

This book is the first attempt to analyse records of people of Afro-Caribbean origin who appealed against repatriation during the painful period after Britain's 1919 race riots. Revealing personal letters and petitions from the West Indies, West Africa, and the UK, Jane Chapman demonstrates that conflict adjustment involving individual voices needs to be highlighted. She asks, what was the human environment, the dilemmas and the racist compulsions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030098516
• ISBN13: 9783030098513
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"