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

byAlex Renton

Focused on reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery, Blood Legacy brings Alex Renton's historical account to a complex and consequential subject. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of history and social science. Attention to evidence keeps the discussion anchored while allowing disagreement, uncertainty, and unintended consequences to remain visible. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning.

Publisher

Canongate Books

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

388

ISBN

9781786898869