12 years a slave
Haven't seen the film, but if anyone wants to know more about slavery from a British perspective, I thoroughly recommend this book as an eye-opener, blood-curdler and page-turner:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/02/sugar-barons-matthew-parker-review
As I understand it, history lessons in the UK have improved since my day, when we learned that slavery was a Bad Thing but Abe Lincoln and William Wilberforce had sorted it, so no worries. I hope so anyway. It's extraordinary that I could have had a high-level tertiary education, know my 'Willy Willy Harry Ste', and be totally oblivious to the history of Bristol and Liverpool, to name but two.
Haven't seen the film, but if anyone wants to know more about slavery from a British perspective, I thoroughly recommend this book as an eye-opener, blood-curdler and page-turner:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/02/sugar-barons-matthew-parker-review
As I understand it, history lessons in the UK have improved since my day, when we learned that slavery was a Bad Thing but Abe Lincoln and William Wilberforce had sorted it, so no worries. I hope so anyway. It's extraordinary that I could have had a high-level tertiary education, know my 'Willy Willy Harry Ste', and be totally oblivious to the history of Bristol and Liverpool, to name but two.
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