No Illusions
John Kerrigan: Syntax of Slavery, 20 November 2025
Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades
by David Eltis.
Cambridge, 442 pp., £30, February,978 1 009 51897 0 Show More
by David Eltis.
Cambridge, 442 pp., £30, February,
Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery
by Ana Lucia Araujo.
Chicago, 640 pp., £32, October 2024,978 0 226 77158 8 Show More
by Ana Lucia Araujo.
Chicago, 640 pp., £32, October 2024,
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed, Murder and the Abolition of Slavery
by Siddharth Kara.
Doubleday, 304 pp., £22, October,978 1 5299 6432 5 Show More
by Siddharth Kara.
Doubleday, 304 pp., £22, October,
Zong!
by m. nourbeSe philip.
Silver Press, 256 pp., £13.99, November 2023,978 0 9957162 4 7 Show More
by m. nourbeSe philip.
Silver Press, 256 pp., £13.99, November 2023,
“... includes a searching account of the atrocity, which he developed in The Zong (2011). The Zorg by Siddharth Kara, a scholar of modern slavery and sex trafficking, is a worthwhile successor, but for all its documentary resourcefulness it too often blurs fact into faction. More profound has been the impact of m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem Zong!, first ... ”
