The Crown’s Silence The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas | 21.48 MB
Title: The Crown’s Silence
Author: Brooke N. Newman
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Discrimination & Race Relations, History, British, Military
Language: English | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0063290979
Description:
For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family’s centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy-from Elizabeth I to the present-and the monarchy’s culpability in the racial injustice that gave birth to the United States.
For centuries, Britain has told itself and the world that it is an abolitionist nation, one that, unlike the United States, rejected human bondage and dismantled its Atlantic slave empire without tearing itself apart in violence. An abolitionist nation headed by a just, humane monarch who liberated enslaved Africans and recognized their descendants as free and equal subjects of the British Crown. As Prince William put it recently, "We’re very much not a racist family." When slaveholding nations write their collective history, the enslavers hold the pen.
Now, acclaimed historian Brooke Newman reveals the true story: the…
For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family’s centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy-from Elizabeth I to the present-and the monarchy’s culpability in the racial injustice that gave birth to the United States.
For centuries, Britain has told itself and the world that it is an abolitionist nation, one that, unlike the United States, rejected human bondage and dismantled its Atlantic slave empire without tearing itself apart in violence. An abolitionist nation headed by a just, humane monarch who liberated enslaved Africans and recognized their descendants as free and equal subjects of the British Crown. As Prince William put it recently, "We’re very much not a racist family." When slaveholding nations write their collective history, the enslavers hold the pen.
Now, acclaimed historian Brooke Newman reveals the true story: the…
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