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Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain 

byPadraic X. Scanlan

The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. Using scientific research, fieldwork, and carefully chosen case studies, Slave Empire moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing Slave Empire within history and social science, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. Readers come away with both the essential context and a sharper sense of how how slavery built modern britain continues to shape the present.

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group Limited

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9781472142351