BLOOD LEGACY: RECKONING WITH/ SLAVERY (PB)

When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. This book explores what inheritance - political, economic, moral and spiritual - has been passed to the descendants of the slave owners and the descendants of the enslaved. Author Alex Renton asks, crucially, how the former - himself among them - can begin to make reparations for the past.