![]() ![]() 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. It shows that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of the First World War. 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 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. ![]() Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-582) and index. ©2016 Physical Description: xxii, 602 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) 20 cm Holdings: Reference Library DA125.B (LC) Accessible in the Reference Library Note: Please contact the Reference Library to schedule an appointment [Email Full Orbis Record: Classification: Books Notes: First published: Macmillan, 2016. Published/Created: London : Pan Books, 2017. Black and British : a forgotten history / David Olusoga. ![]()
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