In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and
broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long
relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the
Caribbean.
Drawing on new genealogical research, original
records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman
Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan 'blackamoors' and the
global slave-trading empire. It shows that the great industrial boom of
the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black
Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars.
Black British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories
of the nation.
It is not a singular history, but one that
belongs to us all. Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing
hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and
white Britons have been entwined for centuries.
Black and British : A Forgotten History - David Olusoga
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