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Black and British : a forgotten history

By: Publisher: London : Pan Books, 2017Description: xxii, 602p., 32 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. (some colour), maps (colour) ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781447299769
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • HM 330.
Summary: In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean. Drawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan ‘blackamoors’ and the global slave-trading empire. It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars. Black British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all. Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries.
List(s) this item appears in: SLaM Library Black History Month and anti-racism books | Croydon Health Services Exploring Race and Ethnicity EDI Collection | Homerton: Diverse Perspectives reading list | Whittington Equalities and Inclusion Collection | SLAM Anti-Racism Reading List
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Originally published: London : Macmillan, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.

Drawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan ‘blackamoors’ and the global slave-trading empire. It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars. Black British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all.

Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries.

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