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Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'Mihir Bose, Irish Times'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.'The Economist'A sweeping and devastating history of how slavery made modern Britain, and destroyed so much else . . . a shattering rebuke to the amnesia and myopia which still structur...

In the eighteenth century, Britain rose to global power on the backs of enslaved workers. Liberty and property, venerated as cornerstones of the British state, were secured with blood on colonial plantations. In the nineteenth century, Britain ended its slave trade and abolished slavery in its empire. But even the antislavery movement was twisted by the legacy of the slave empire.In intimate, human detail, Slave Empire shows how British imperi...

A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its success to justify colonialism in Africa