A review by noonjinx
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

Really good. I learned a little about the slave trade at school in the 1970s but there’s a whole lot of myth busting and extra history here that was completely new to me. The book made me depressed, frustrated and angry, but never bored. The quotes from the defenders of slavery and the racist establishment even beyond WWII were particularly horrifying.
 
Olusoga’s writing is wonderfully vivid which stops all of the quotations and historique reference from weighing the narrative down. I listened to the audio version and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith’s narration is perfect too (as always).
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