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Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an immigrant carpenter in the late-19th and early 20th century. Williams, then a student in Britain, organized the African Association in 1897, and the first-ever Pan-African Conference in 1900. He is thus the progenitor of the OAU/AU. Some of those who attended went on to work in various pan-African organizations in their homelands.He became not only a qualified barrister, but the first Black man admitted to the

With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the Emancipation Act of 1833, Britain seemed to wash its hands of slavery. Not so, according to Marika Sherwood, who sets the record straight in this provocative new book. In fact, Sherwood demonstrates that Britain continued to contribute to the slave trade well after 1807, even into the twentieth century. Drawing on government documents and contemporary reports as well as published sources, she describes how slavery remained very much a part of British investment, commerce and empire, especially in funding and supplying goods for the trade in

Britain congratulated itself on having made trading in slaves illegal with the 1807 Act. While later legislation ostensibly strengthened the original Act's provisions, there were persistent allegations, supported by evidence from the British Foreign and Anti-Slavery society among others, that British companies still profited from it. One of the few prosecutions against the owner of one such company, Pedro Zulueta, ended in his acquittal despite evidence to the contrary. The exploration of the economic, political and social factors underlying both trial and acquittal sheds light on the nineteenth-century British economy's continuing semi-covert involvement in the trade.

This paper argues that economic, domestic, & political changes in GB during the mid-19th century are responsible for the development of racist attitudes among the English people. The surge toward colonization & empire building resulted in an attitude of superiority/inferiority that was deliberately perpetuated among all Englishmen, regardless of their own social standing. This superior attitude was purposefully construed as a necessary component of both the ability to conquer "lesser" societies & to maintain domestic solidarity. It is unfortunate that though the empire-building spirit has long ceased to be a motivating factor, racism doggedly persists & appears to be permanently embedded within the social institutions of modern-day GB. 121 References. K. A. Larsen

Sherwood reviews 'The Black Handbook: The People, History and Politics and the African Diaspora' by E. L. Bute and H. J. P. Harmer.