Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In th

Brings together the evidence and arguments that the general public and expert policymakers have long called for. It is at once an exciting narration of Britain'

Book describes the brutal Black slave society and plantation system of Barbados and explains how this slave chattel model was perfected by the British and expor

When Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors and Britain's role in this terr

"Britain's seaborne tradition is used to throw light on the British themselves, the people with whom they came into contact and the British perception of empire