From the February 2024 Issue The Long Road to Emancipation The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–1888 By Robin Blackburn Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade By Hannah Durkin LR
From the April 2022 Issue Free and in Chains Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation By Kris Manjapra LR
From the June 2021 Issue Send Them Down Under Condemned: The Transported Men, Women and Children Who Built Britain’s Empire By Graham Seal LR
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