Black and British : : a Forgotten History

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Call Number: Black Studies 305.896 Ol
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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First published: Macmillan, 2016.
In Black and British, David Olusoga offers readers a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. Drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony and contemporary interviews, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination and Shakespeare's Othello. It reveals that behind the South Sea Bubble was Britain's global slave-trading empire and that much of the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery. It shows that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of the First World War. Black British history can be read in stately homes, street names, statues and memorials across Britain and is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how black and white Britons have been intimately entwined for centuries.

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in Depth and Worthwhile submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on August 19, 2020, 6:37am The latest discussions about racism, slavery, and historical inequality have opened gaps in our collective understanding of the contribution. Black people have made to life in Britain for ages. David Olusoga's book provides a thoroughgoing overview of a long and complex history.