“This is a game-changing and potentially controversial contribution to academic and popular discourse around slavery and slave trades (note trades, plural) that should inform debates around reparations, although it ranges well beyond them.
Reasonably priced and attractively produced, the book includes maps and well-chosen illustrations, which encapsulate Plaut’s chronological range. The first of these shows Nubian prisoners guarded by Egyptian soldiers and comes from c.2900 BCE. The last shows Barak and Michelle Obama at the Gate of No Return.
Plaut, formerly Africa Editor for the BBC World Service, has impressive credentials and connections to media, academic and government networks. Fifty-plus pages of bibliography and endnotes show that he has combed a great volume of scholarly and secondary literature and contemporary journalism.”
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