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Praise for the author's Slave Empire: Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking. -- Fara Dabhoiwala * Guardian * Praise for the author's Slave Empire: Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history. -- Mihir Bose * Irish Times * Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose. * The Economist * Praise for the author's Slave Empire: A sweeping and devastating history of how slavery made modern Britain, and destroyed so much else . . . a shattering rebuke to the amnesia and myopia which still structure British history. -- Nicholas Guyatt, author of <i>Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation</i> Praise for the author's Slave Empire: Scanlan shows that the liberal empire of the nineteenth century was the outcome of the long encounter of antislavery and economic expansion founded on enslaved or unfree labour. Antislavery was itself the excuse for empire. -- Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History, Harvard University Praise for the author's Slave Empire: Fresh and fascinating, a stunning narrative that shows how an empire built on slavery became an empire sustained and expanded by antislavery . . . deftly combines rich storytelling with vivid details and deep scholarship. -- Bronwen Everill, author of <i>Not Made By Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition</i> Praise for the author's Slave Empire: This accessible synthesis of recent scholarship comes at the right time to help shape current debates about Britain and slavery. -- Nicholas Draper, author of <i>The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery</i> Praise for the author's Slave Empire: Powerful, often devastating, always compelling. * All About History *