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020 _a9781447299769
060 _aHM 330.
100 1 _aOlusoga, David
245 1 0 _aBlack and British :
_ba forgotten history
264 1 _aLondon :
_bPan Books,
_c2017.
300 _axxii, 602p., 32 unnumbered pages of plates :
_bill. (some colour), maps (colour) ;
_c20 cm
500 _aOriginally published: London : Macmillan, 2016.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aIn 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.
650 0 _aBlack people
650 0 _aImmigration
_913229
650 0 _aHistory
650 0 _aRace relations
_97654
650 0 _aAfrican
_912867
650 0 _aAfro-Caribbean
_912868
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999 _c33100
_d33100