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Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain 

by Padraic X. Scanlan

The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was ‘free’ and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery.

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group Limited

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9781472142351