Drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony and contemporary interviews, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination and Shakespeare\'s Othello .
Black B.
It shows that Black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of World War I.
It reveals that behind the South Sea Bubble was Britain\'s global slave-trading empire and that much of the great industrial boom of the 19th century was built on American slavery.
Drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony and contemporary interviews, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination and Shakespeare\'s Othello