February 2024 Issue Michael Taylor 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
April 2022 Issue Michael Taylor Free and in Chains Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation By Kris Manjapra LR
February 2022 Issue Richard Cockett The Case for Reparations White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery By Thomas Harding LR
December 2020 Issue H Kumarasingham The Price of Freedom The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery By Michael Taylor LR
July 2017 Issue Frank McLynn Hearts of Darkness Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa By Steven Press LR
June 2015 Issue Freya Johnston The Son He Never Had The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir By Michael Bundock LR
August 2011 Issue Josh Glancy The Great Emancipator The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery By Eric Foner LR
May 2009 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Found At Sea Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade By Sîân Rees LR
February 2009 Issue Dominic Sandbrook American Idol Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln By Doris Kearns Goodwin LR
February 2009 Issue Kenan Malik The Unity of Man Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins By Adrian Desmond and James Moore LR
December 2013 Issue Andrea Stuart Trading Places Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture By Gaiutra Bahadur LR
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