SEARCHING FOR MY SLAVE ROOTS

Malik Al Nasir was born in Liverpool to mixed parentage with a white mother and a black father Bemused by childhood memories of racist shouts for him to go back to where you came from he came from Liverpool after all he began to look into his father s ancestry This resulting book charts the twists and turns of his journey into the past and explores an untold chapter in both Black and British history As Malik investigates his roots he reveals a new history of the transatlantic slave trade and the role of Scottish Dutch and English merchants Largely set between Liverpool and Demerara in what was British Guiana this is a story of sugar and of the barbaric transportation and abuse of human beings that facilitated our insatiable desire for the sweet stuff In Guyana he discovers ancestors that had been both enslaved Africans and prominent white slaveholders He finds himself part of a complex lineage linking slaveholdings to high sheriffs mayors a British Prime Minister and bankers whose companies formed major modern day financial institutions some of whom have yet to acknowledge their connections to the slave trade Announced by the University of Cambridge as the winner of the Vice Chancellor s Global Impact Award for his research Searching for My Slave Ro

Malik Al Nasir was born in Liverpool to mixed parentage with a white mother and a black father Bemused by childhood memories of racist shouts for him to go back to where you came from he came from Liverpool after all he began to look into his father s ancestry This resulting book charts the twists and turns of his journey into the past and explores an untold chapter in both Black and British history As Malik investigates his roots he reveals a new history of the transatlantic slave trade and the role of Scottish Dutch and English merchants Largely set between Liverpool and Demerara in what was British Guiana this is a story of sugar and of the barbaric transportation and abuse of human beings that facilitated our insatiable desire for the sweet stuff In Guyana he discovers ancestors that had been both enslaved Africans and prominent white slaveholders He finds himself part of a complex lineage linking slaveholdings to high sheriffs mayors a British Prime Minister and bankers whose companies formed major modern day financial institutions some of whom have yet to acknowledge their connections to the slave trade Announced by the University of Cambridge as the winner of the Vice Chancellor s Global Impact Award for his research Searching for My Slave Ro