Black and British: A Forgotten History (Paperback) David Olusoga (author)

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Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize 

Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize

When I was a child, I imbibed enough of the background racial tensions…to feel profoundly unwelcome in Britain. My right, not just to regard myself as a British citizen, but even to be in Britain seemed contested.

In this vital re-examination of a shared history, award-winning 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.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN:

Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize 

Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize

When I was a child, I imbibed enough of the background racial tensions…to feel profoundly unwelcome in Britain. My right, not just to regard myself as a British citizen, but even to be in Britain seemed contested.

In this vital re-examination of a shared history, award-winning 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.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781447299769
Number of pages: 624
Weight: 484 g
Dimensions: 196 x 132 x 42 mm


Number of pages: 624
Weight: 484 g
Dimensions: 196 x 132 x 42 mm

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