'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking' Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian 'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history' Mihir Bose, Irish Times

Describes the history of how the 'Africa Trade' formed the backbone of the British Empire. This book retells the story of how the international commodity market

This is an introduction to the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, which especially focuses on the two centuries from 1650,

African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the pl

In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a life crossing