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Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history Mihir Bose, Irish Times Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose. The Economist A sweeping and devastating history of how slavery made modern Britain, and destroyed so much else . . . a shattering rebuke to the amnesia and myopia which still structure British history Nicholas Guyatt, author of Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation Scanlan shows that the liberal empire of the nineteenth century was the outcome of the long encounter of antislavery and economic expansion founded on enslaved or unfree labour. Antislavery was itself the excuse for empire Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History, Harvard University Fresh and fascinating, a stunning narrative that shows how an empire built on slavery became an empire sustained and expanded by antisla
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