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

by Danell Jones

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849049602
• ISBN13: 9781849049603
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"