Abstract
Born in Liverpool in 1863, John Archer spent time in the Americas before returning to Britain to become a well-known local politician within the emerging labour movement in Victorian and Edwardian London. This paper sketches his personal and political biographies highlighting the moments where his concerns about race, racism and the politics of Pan-Africanism and labour converged. Despite his pioneering role in London labour politics his biography remains fragmented. As such this paper reflects the problems inherent in investigating the role of black people in labour politics and the resulting troubles we have integrating their impact on broader political geographies of race and labour.
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