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Blood Legacy - Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery (Hardcover, Main)
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Blood Legacy - Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery (Hardcover, Main)
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'Alex Renton has done
Britain a favour and written a brutally honest book about his
family's involvement with slavery. Blood Legacy could change our
frequently defensive national conversation about slavery/race'
Sathnam Sanghera 'Utterly gripped - An incredible book. Alex's work
is my book in practice' Emma Dabiri Through the story of his own
family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks
at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the
past. 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. The descendants
of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most
powerful people in Britain today. A group of Caribbean countries is
calling on ten European nations to discuss the payment of trillions
of dollars for the damage done by transatlantic slavery and its
continuing legacy. Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter and other activist
groups are causing increasing numbers of white people to reflect on
how this history of abuse and exploitation has benefited them.
Blood Legacy explores what inheritance - political, economic, moral
and spiritual - has been passed to the descendants of the slave
owners and the descendants of the enslaved. He also asks,
crucially, how the former - himself among them - can begin to make
reparations for the past.
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