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
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In just thirteen years, George Villiers rose from plain squire to become the only duke in England and the most powerful politician in the land. Does a new biography finally unravel the secrets of his success?
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