Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge - A New History of the Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism

‘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