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    Family secrets

    Aug 05, 2021 1 minute

    ON THE HistoryExtra PODCAST

    Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s Story of Slavery

    by Alex Renton

    Canongate, 400 pages, £16.99

    Journalist Alex Renton’s is a timely interven-tion into recent debates about is the story of their failed coffee and indigo plantation in Tobago and the moderately successful Rozelle sugar estate in Jamaica.

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