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African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History

byHakim Adi

Hakim Adi presents a broad history of African and Caribbean people in Britain from the Roman era to the present. Soldiers, sailors, servants, students, artists, workers, activists, and families reveal a presence far older and more continuous than conventional accounts acknowledge. The book connects migration with empire, slavery, war, labor, anticolonial politics, racism, and cultural change. Adi combines major events with individual lives, showing how Black Britons shaped the nation while repeatedly fighting exclusion. Their history is not a recent addition to British identity but one of its enduring foundations.

Publisher

Penguin Books, Limited

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780241583821