Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how black and white Britons have been intimately entwined for centuries. 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. 2016 by David Olusoga (Author) 3,060 ratings Editors' pick Hand selected reads See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 6.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 21.99 7 Used from 19.17 Paperback 9.09 6 Used from 5.99 18 New from 9. It shows that Black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of the First World War. Black and British: A Forgotten History Hardcover 3 Nov. 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. 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. In it, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. Black and British: A Forgotten History Paperback Januby David Olusoga (Author) 3,232 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 8.63 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 40.85 5 Used from 36.87 1 Collectible from 115.15 Paperback 16.44 10 Used from 12.45 12 New from 13. Published by: Macmillan (An imprint of Pan Macmillan)
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