Francis Barber and Black British History
Since the publication in 2015 of The Fortunes of Francis Barber (now reissued in paperback) there has been an outburst of interest in many…
Slavery
Conversations: Colonialism
The global wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd reminds us that we live in times of continuing racial injustice. As…
Conversations: History of Slavery
The global wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd reminds us that we live in times of continuing racial injustice. As…
Francis Barber: Biography, Celebrity, Obscurity by Michael Bundock
Francis Barber lived a remarkable life. As far as we know he was born a slave on a sugar plantation in Jamaica in about…
The Zong: two paintings and the end of slavery
Did Dido Elizabeth Belle – the illegitimate child of John Lindsay, a Royal Navy captain, and an African slave – influence the outcome of…
American Gulag – The Shocking Legacy of Slavery: Author article by Lyric Hale
In the next instalment of her regular column, top economic commentator and What’s Next? author Lyric Hale discusses the shocking exploitation of the growing, mostly black, US prison…
What Dr Johnson Knew: Julie Flavell takes us on a tour of Georgian London’s Fleet Street
When London Was Capital of America by Julie Flavell re-creates London’s heyday as the epicentre of the British empire. Today the book’s author takes us on a…
Out this Month: ‘The Zong’ examines a horrifying and pivotal event in the history of the slave trade
In 1781, the captain of a British ship running short of drinking water ordered 132 African slaves thrown overboard. The Zong: A Massacre, the…