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With a foreword by historian David Olusoga, this book will be an exploration of an untold chapter in both Black and British history, seen through Malik''s own investigation into his mixed Guyanese heritage. With ancestors that had been both enslaved people and prominent slaveholders, Malik Al Nasir will uncover a completely new narrative on historical transatlantic slavery and the role of Scottish, Dutch and English Merchants, whose holdings were financed through the proceeds of the Demerara sugar and slave trade. Malik will uncover a lineage linking slaveholdings to high sheriffs, mayors, a late Prime Minister and bankers, whose companies formed major modern-day financial institutions. Travelling around the Atlantic world, he will unravel the legacies of slavery, plantation economics and the wealth of a slaveholding dynasty that he himself descended from, and the nuanced ways that historic trauma plays down through generations of the enslaved, and how wealth and privilege plays out across generations of slaveholders and their descendants.

Product details

• Authors: Malik Al Nasir, Al Nasir Malik, Malik Al Nasir
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.12.2021, delayed
• EAN: 9780008464493
• ISBN: 978-0-00-846449-3
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Africa / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Guyana, 21st Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Relating to Black British Caribbean people, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, Title;