Searching for my slave roots
Al Nasir, Malik2024
Books
Find it!
With ancestors that had been both enslaved people and prominent slaveholders, Malik Al Nasir uncovers a completely new narrative on historical transatlantic slavery and the role of Scottish, Dutch and English Merchants, whose holdings were financed through the proceeds of the Demerara sugar and slave trade. Malik will uncover a lineage linking slaveholdings to high sheriffs, mayors, a late Prime Minister and bankers, whose companies formed major modern-day financial institutions. Travelling around the Atlantic world, he will unravel the legacies of slavery, plantation economics and the wealth of a slaveholding dynasty that he himself descended from, and the nuanced ways that historic trauma plays down through generations of the enslaved, and how wealth and privilege plays out across generations of slaveholders and their descendants.
Main title:
Searching for my slave roots / Malik Al Nasir, with Carinya Sharples.
Author:
Al Nasir, Malik, author
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2024.
Collation:
xviii, 390 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780008464486 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
306.36209306.362306.362 ALN
Language:
English
BRN:
2718145
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond Lending Library | Adult non-fiction | 306.362Society | Onloan - Due: 30 Jan 2026 |