After my self awarded summer break I am a little late this month, but better late than never. An unusually high proportion dealing with the subject of slavery, coming at it from a few different angles.
Here are three in particular that I would like to find out more about:
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Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World, by Justin Marozzi. I'm about two thirds of the way through this already and it is excellent. A far-ranging, even-handed history covering often little known stories.
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The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles Over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port, by Toby Green. This seems to be a micro-history centred on one woman accused of witchcraft in what is now Guinea-Bissau. It looks fascinating.
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Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling, by Marina Warner. I'm not sure if this will be a tour de force, or an over engineered political statement - hopefully the former!
Click the book covers to see a zoomed in image and links to Amazon if you like to buy your books there.
The full list:
- ๐ A Guide to Hillforts of Britain, An Aerial View: The Legacy of the Iron Age Dobunni Tribe
- ๐ The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles Over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port
- ๐ Worlds of Unfreedom: West Central Africa in the Era of Global Abolition
- ๐ Goliath's Curse: A Deep History of Societal Collapse and What it Means for Our Future
- ๐ Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World
- ๐ The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes
- ๐ Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling
- ๐ Reframing Blackness: What's Black about History of Art ?
- ๐ Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed the World
- ๐ The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court
- ๐ Glorius Failure: The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India
- ๐ The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe
