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

Michael Taylor

Free and in Chains

Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

By Kris Manjapra

Richard Cockett

The Case for Reparations

White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery

By Thomas Harding

H Kumarasingham

The Price of Freedom

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

By Michael Taylor

Frank McLynn

Hearts of Darkness

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

By Steven Press

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

Josh Glancy

The Great Emancipator

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

By Eric Foner

Jonathan Mirsky

Found At Sea

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

By Sîân Rees

Dominic Sandbrook

American Idol

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

Kenan Malik

The Unity of Man

Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins

By Adrian Desmond and James Moore

Andrea Stuart

Trading Places

Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture

By Gaiutra Bahadur