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Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery

by Alex Renton

by Alex Renton@axrenton Through the story of his own family’s history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When the transatlantic slave trade was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thou

Publisher

Canongate Books

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

388

ISBN

9781786898869