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Book SynopsisThe follow-up to Peter Fryer's modern classic, Staying Power
Trade Review'Fantastic … the most important book on Black British history’
-- Akala, author of 'Natives' (Two Reads, 2018)
'As this sequel to Staying Power demonstrates so succinctly, there is no separate entity called 'black history’, just versions and perspectives that have been air-brushed out of the official narrative. Britain's history is littered with gaping holes - hidden histories and her-stories that have yet to be told or unearthed. In drawing our attention to the experience of countless subjugated people who were deemed part of its sprawling empire, Peter Fryer has shown, once again, that he has earned his credentials'
-- Stella Dadzie, co-author of 'The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain' (Virago, 1985), and winner of the the Martin Luther King Award for Literature
'An inspiring account of brutal repression and resistance ... Fryer throws the darker side of the empire into graphic relief'
-- New Statesman
'An important contribution to the struggle against racism'
-- Race & Class
'A stimulating book which raises important and often uncomfortable questions'
-- International Affairs
Table of ContentsForeword by Stella Dadzie
Preface
Introduction
Part I: How Britain Became ‘Great Britain’
1. Britain and its Empire
2. The Triangular Trade
3. India
Plunder
De-industrialization
4. The Caribbean from 1834
The Abolition of Slavery
Indentured Labour
Apprenticeship
Britain’s ‘Tropical Farms’
5. Africa (Other Than Southern Africa)
6. Territories of White Settlement
Tasmania
Australia
New Zealand
Southern Africa
Indentured Labour
7. Profits of Empire
8. How Black People were Ruled
9. The Empire and the British Working Class
Part II: Racism
10. The Concept of ‘Race’
11. Racism and Slavery
12. Racism and Empire
13. The Reproduction of Racism
Historiography
Children’s Books
Part III: Resistance
14. The Struggle against Slavery
15. The Caribbean after Emancipation
16. India
Conclusion
Notes and References
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
