alex renton
blood legacy: reckoning with a family’s story of slavery
OUTLINE
Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money.
REVIEWS
'Alex Renton has done Britain a favour and written a brutally honest book about his family's involvement with slavery. Blood Legacy could change our frequently defensive national conversation about slavery/race' Sathnam Sanghera
'Utterly gripped - An incredible book. Emma Dabiri.
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