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‘[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.’ Kwasi Kwarteng,Sunday Times

In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.

Drawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony,Black and Britishreaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan blackamoors and the global slave-trading empire. It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wa