White Debt
Jan 12, 2022
3 minutes
By Thomas Harding
Weidenfeld and Nicolson £20
In White Debt, Thomas Harding asks two questions about the British slave trade: how do we remember the past, and whom should we hold responsible for it?
Important questions, and ones very much at the forefront in recent years, as institutions are renamed and statues tumble. It is no accident that Harding begins with an account of Colston’s statue in Bristol.
Harding identifies a need to tell a
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