| Author/Contributor(s): | Høgsbjerg, Christian |
| Publisher: | On Our Own Authority! |
| Date: | 2017 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Chris Braithwaite (aka Chris Jones) was a black Barbadian seafearer who became a leading organiser of colonial seafearers in inter-war Britain. He played a critical role in the Pan-Africanist and wider anti-colonial movement alongside figures such as C.L.R. James and George Padmore.
Historian Christian Høgsbjerg's concise biography recovers Braithwaite’s long over-looked life as a black radical and political trade-unionist, and suggests his determined struggle for working class unity in the face of racism and austerity retains relevance for us today.
"Christian Høgsbjerg’s 'biography from below' of West Indian seaman Chris Braithwaite opens a portal onto an dynamic Black and Red Atlantic world of work and politics. Here is an excellent contribution to a “people’s history of the sea." Marcus Rediker, author of The Amistad Rebellion