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Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga
4.60/5 (2899 ratings)
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In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga 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.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
624 pages
Publication:
2016
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Edition:
Main Market Ed.
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1447299736
ISBN13:
9781447299738
kindle Asin:
B01DKHFY3W

Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga
4.60/5 (2899 ratings)
Read Download
In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga 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.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
624 pages
Publication:
2016
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Edition:
Main Market Ed.
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1447299736
ISBN13:
9781447299738
kindle Asin:
B01DKHFY3W

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