In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster
offers readers a rich and revealing
exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. Drawing on new
genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony and contemporary interviews, Black and British
reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination and Shakespeare's Othello.
It reveals that behind the South Sea Bubble was Britain's global slave-trading empire and that much of the great
industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery. It shows that Black Britons fought at Trafalgar
and in the trenches of the First World War. Black British history can be read in stately homes, street names, statues
and memorials across Britain and is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation.
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