Blood Legacy | Alex Renton in conversation with Sathnam Sanghera
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ค. 2023
- Blood Legacy
Alex Renton in conversation with Sathnam Sanghera
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. In conversation with author of Empireland Sathnam Sanghera, Alex Renton, author of Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery, delves into the story of his own family’s history as slave and plantation owners and questions how much we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past.
Alex Renton is a British-Canadian journalist and author. His most recent book, Blood Legacy, long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize, examined the legacies of British colonialism and transatlantic slavery through his own family's history with the EIC and as slave and plantation owners in the Caribbean. Renton’s experiences in elite boarding schools led to a book, Stiff Upper Lip, and TV and radio programmes examining a culture of child abuse and cover-up in British institutions and its effects in the UK and beyond.
Sathnam Sanghera graduated from Christ’s College, Cambridge with a first class degree in English Language and Literature. He has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards twice, for his memoir The Boy With The Topknot and his novel Marriage Material, the former being adapted by BBC Drama in 2017. His third book, Empireland: How Imperialism Has Been Shaped Modern Britain, became an instant Sunday Times bestseller in 2021, was named Book of the Year at the 2022 British Books Awards, and inspired Channel 4’s Empire State of Mind.
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