Black and British: An Untold Story
Author(s): David Olusoga
A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series. In Black and British, 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. 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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A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series.
[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain ... Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion. It is thoroughly researched and there are many interesting anecdotes. -- Kwasi Kwarteng The Sunday Times You could not ask for a more judicious, comprehensive and highly readable survey of a part of British history that has been so long overlooked or denied. David Olusoga, in keeping with the high standards of his earlier books, is a superb guide -- Adam Hochschild Groundbreaking Observer A radical reappraisal of the parameters of history, exposing lacunae in the nation's version of its past. -- Arifa Akbar Guardian
David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, broadcaster and BAFTA award-winning presenter and filmmaker. His previous books include The Kaiser's Holocaust and The World's War. He was also a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Black British History.
** Section - i: List of Illustrations* Section - ii: Preface* Introduction - iii: 'Years of Distant Wandering'* Chapter - One: 'Sons of Ham'* Chapter - Two: 'Blackamoors'* Chapter - Three: 'For Blacks or Dogs'* Chapter - Four: 'Too Pure an Air for Slaves'* Chapter - Five: 'Province of Freedom'* Chapter - Six: 'The Monster is Dead'* Chapter - Seven: Moral Mission* Chapter - Eight: 'Liberated Africans'* Chapter - Nine: 'Cotton is King'* Chapter - Ten: 'Mercy in a Massacre'* Chapter - Eleven: 'Darkest Africa'* Chapter - Twelve: 'We are a Coloured Empire'* Chapter - Thirteen: 'We Prefer their Company'* Chapter - Fourteen: 'Swamped'** Section - iv: Conclusion* Acknowledgements - v: Acknowledgements* Section - vi: Bibliography* Section - vii: Notes* Index - viii: Index
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Macmillan
- : 1.016
- : 03 November 2016
- : 234mm X 153mm X 49mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : David Olusoga
- : Hardback
- : Main Market Ed.
- : 941.00496
- : 624
