{"product_id":"blood-legacy-reckoning-with-a-familys-story-of-slavery-9781786898890","title":"Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family's Story of Slavery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An incredible work of scholarship' Sathnam Sanghera\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Blood Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10727177\"\u003eAlex Renton\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Canongate Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781786898890\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1786898896\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC054000\"\u003eSlavery\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS054000\"\u003eSocial History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS015080\"\u003eEurope | Great Britain | 21st Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex Renton\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist who has won awards for his work as an investigator, war correspondent and food policy writer. He has also worked for Oxfam, in East Asia, Haiti and on the Iraq war. Most recently he has been a columnist on the \u003ci\u003eTimes \u003c\/i\u003eand a correspondent for \u003ci\u003eNewsweek \u003c\/i\u003emagazine. He lives in Edinburgh with his family. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e@axrenton alexrenton.com","brand":"Canongate Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44523395612909,"sku":"9781786898890","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_3b978964-a0f0-4c7d-8b41-d84f6efa57ca.jpg?v=1701318033","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/blood-legacy-reckoning-with-a-familys-story-of-slavery-9781786898890","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}