''Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking''
Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian

''Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history''
Mihir Bose, Irish Times

''Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensicIt deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.''
The Economist

The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was ''free'' and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never trueThe British empire was built on slavery.

Slave Empire puts enslaved people at the centre the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In intimate, human detail, Padraic Scanlon shows how British imperial power and industrial capitalism were inextricable from plantation slaveryWith vivid original research and careful synthesis of innovative historical scholarship, Slave Empire shows that British freedom and British slavery were made together.



Format Häftad Omfång 464 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Little, Brown Book Group Utgivningsdatum 2022-03-10 ISBN 9781472142337