The Crown's silence : the hidden history of slavery and the British Monarchy / Brooke Newman.

"For two centuries, Britain has told itself and the world that it is an abolitionist nation, headed by just, humane monarchs who liberated ensalved Africans and recognised their descendants as free and equal subjects of the Crown. Now, acclaimed historian Brooke Newman reveals the shocking true story. A work of ground-breaking original research and narrative history, The Crown's Silence exposes the ways in which the British monarchy invested in, expanded and defended the transatlantic slave trade for nearly three centuries, and how it continues to profit from systems of racial exploitation to this day - while remaining silent in the face of that legacy. Deeply rersearched and compellingly told, it reveals how the Crown reshaped Britain's national narrative and collective memory of its own colonial past, as well as the consequences of that deafening silence."--