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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
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Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery 
by Ana Lucia Araujo.
Chicago, 640 pp., £32, October 2024, 978 0 226 77158 8
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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
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Zong! 
by m. nourbeSe philip.
Silver Press, 256 pp., £13.99, November 2023, 978 0 9957162 4 7
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... still lived in such conditions, enduring the slow violence of poverty. Slum clearance during my childhood made a difference, but to walk into the centre of the city was to pass through terraced streets in which the old patterns were still to be seen.There was a deeper substrate of violence. Between St George’s Hall and the waterfront is a commercial ...

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Marina Warner: The Liveliness of the Dead, 17 August 2017

The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains 
by Thomas Laqueur.
Princeton, 711 pp., £27.95, October 2015, 978 0 691 15778 8
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... returned, inscribed KILLED. In one, she told him: ‘I have dreamt that you were back home with me dear and the most strange thing about them, you are always in civilian clothes when I dream of you & and I have never seen you in those dear … I hope that will come true.’ When he was killed, in March 1917, she began the long struggle to find the ...

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