H Kumarasingham

The Price of Freedom

The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery

By Michael Taylor

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April 2020 Issue

William Doyle

Thirty Years a Slave

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

By Sudhir Hazareesingh

December 2019 Issue

Barnaby Crowcroft

Sanctioned by Sharia?

Slavery & Islam

By Jonathan A C Brown

August 2019 Issue

Richard Carwardine

Emancipation and Beyond

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By David W Blight

April 1999 Issue

Victoria Glendinning

Perhaps There Is Something Wrong With Our Brains

Mara and Dann: An Adventure

By Doris Lessing

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October 1998 Issue

Elaine Showalter

Huck Finn as a Female – All in a Good Cause

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

By Jane Smiley

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December 1997 Issue

Robin Blackburn

We Must Learn How The Modern World Was Made

The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440–1870

By Hugh Thomas

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July 2017 Issue

Frank McLynn

Hearts of Darkness

Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa

By Steven Press

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September 2016 Issue

Tim Stanley

With Flying Colours

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

By Karl Jacoby

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December 1990 Issue

Elizabeth Imlay

No Fun for Slaves

Fanny Kemble: The American Journals

By Fanny Kemble & Elizabeth Mavor (ed)

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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

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May 2004 Issue

Paul Johnson

Man On A Manumission

An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, And The Creation of America

By Henry Wiencek

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June 2004 Issue

William Palmer

Europeans For Sale

White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North America's One Million European Slaves

By Giles Milton

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August 2011 Issue

Josh Glancy

The Great Emancipator

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

By Eric Foner

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May 2009 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Found At Sea

Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade

By Sîân Rees

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February 2009 Issue

Dominic Sandbrook

American Idol

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

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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

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June 2012 Issue

Matthew Parker

Back to Barbados

Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire

By Andrea Stuart

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February 2005 Issue

Saul David

Cry Freedom

Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery

By Adam Hochschild

Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees

By Caroline Moorehead

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September 2012 Issue

Joan Smith

Profits of Sin

Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking

By Lydia Cacho (Translated by Elizabeth Boburg)

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