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Born in Barbados, Chris Braithwaite (1885-1944) went to sea with the British merchant navy as a teenager and travelled the world as a sailor. After settling in London, Braithwaite became a member of the National Union of Seamen, and in 1930 he joined the Seamen's Minority Movement, organised by the Communist Party of Great Britain. Hogsbjerg's 'people's history of the sea' examines Braithwaite's life, opening a portal onto a dynamic Black and Red Atlantic world of work, politics anti-racist revolution.Product Identifiers
PublisherBookmarks Publications
ISBN-139781909026568
eBay Product ID (ePID)224716377
Product Key Features
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMariner, Renegade And Castaway: Chris Braithwaite: Seamen's Organiser, Socialist and Militant Pan-Africanist
Publication Year2014
SubjectHistory
TypeTextbook
AuthorChristian Hogsbjerg
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height178 mm
Item Weight142 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorChristian Hogsbjerg