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Mr Atkinson`s Rum Contract: The Story of a Tangled Inheritance

Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021 `Rarely has family history been so vivid` JENNY UGLOW `An extraordinarily original work` AMANDA FOREMAN Like many well-to-do Georgian families, the Atkinsons` wealth was acquired at a terrible cost, through the labour and lives of enslaved Africans. Drawing on his ancestors` private correspondence, Richard Atkinson pieces together their unsettling story, from the weather-beaten house in Cumbria where they once lived to the ruins of their sugar estates in Jamaica. This extraordinarily original work of detective biography is also a uniquely personal account of one of the most disturbing chapters in Britain`s colonial past.

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