SEARCHING FOR MY SLAVE PB

I suspect that in ten years time we ll look back at the study of slavery and try to remember what it was like before we d heard of the Sandbach Tinne dynasty That we ll struggle to imagine how we tried to understand Britain s involvement in slavery and the slave trade without this huge dynastic epic at the centre of it DAVID OLUSOGA Malik Al Nasir was born in Liverpool a mixed race kid formerly known as Mark Watson he changed his name when he converted to Islam in early adulthood Bemused by memories of racist chants baying for him to go back to where you came from he came from Liverpool after all he began to look in detail into his ancestry This book is the result and charts the twists and turns of his journey into the past exploring an untold chapter in both Black and British history As Malik investigates his roots he uncovers a forgotten history of the trade in enslaved Africans and the role of Scottish Dutch and English merchants known as Sandbach Tinne & Co Largely set in between Liverpool Glasgow and Demerara and Berbice Searching for my Slave Roots is a quest for identity through the genealogy of Malik s family and of the barbaric transportation and abuse of humans all to feed our insatiable desire for the sweet stuff In Guyana he discov