It reveals that behind the South Sea Bubble was Britain's global slave-trading empire and that much of the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery. It shows that Black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of the First World War.
Introduction: ‘Years of Distant Wandering’
Chapter 3: ‘For Blacks or Dogs’
Chapter 4: ‘Too Pure an Air for Slaves’
Chapter 5: ‘Province of Freedom’
Chapter 6: ‘The Monster is Dead’
Chapter 8: ‘Liberated Africans’
Chapter 10: ‘Mercy in a Massacre’
Chapter 12: ‘We are a Coloured Empire’
Chapter 13: ‘We Prefer their Company’