White debt : the Demerara uprising and Britain's legacy of slavery
Harding, Thomas, 1968-2023
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When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from the slave plantations worked by people of African descent, what began as an interrogation into the choices of his ancestors soon became a quest to learn more about Britain's role in slavery. It was a history that he knew surprisingly little about - the myth that we are often taught in schools is that Britain's role in slavery was as the abolisher, but the reality is much more sinister. In this book, Harding vividly brings to life the story of the uprising by enslaved people that took place in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana) in the Caribbean in 1823.
Main title:
White debt : the Demerara uprising and Britain's legacy of slavery / Thomas Harding.
Author:
Harding, Thomas, 1968-, author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023.
Collation:
xix, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
First published in Great Britain in 2022 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781474621069 (pbk)
Dewey class:
306.362094109033306.362094306.362094 HAR
Local class:
HI.1.02/HAR
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3358286
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