By a prominent US scholar of slavery. A mixture of history, memoir, and essay. Organized around an extended stay in Ghana and an exploration of the key sites of the slave trade there. An intense, often painful meditation on loss, forgetting, remembering, legacies of relentless violence, and the impossibility of return. Focused to a significant …
A company history published by a Scottish insurance firm on the occasion of its centenary in 1905 – so, most definitely not my usual fare! This Goodreads entry is for a contemporary reprint by one of those outfits that do print-on-demand for old books, but I actually read an original edition which had belonged to …