A global revolution
Jun 09, 2022
2 minutes
A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power by James Walvin
Little, Brown, 400 pages, £25
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was born in what’s now Ghana. Kidnapped at the age of 13, he was forced into the stinking belly of a slave ship. After surviving the Middle Passage, he worked in the sugar fields of Grenada
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