The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas
Brooke N. Newman
Mariner Books
For centuries, Britain has told itself and the world that it is an abolitionist nation, one that, unlike the United States, rejected human bondage and dismantled its Atlantic slave empire without tearing itself apart in violence. Acclaimed historian Brooke Newman reveals the true story: the enslavers were supported by members of the royal family.
From the 1560s to 1807, the British monarchy invested in the transatlantic slave trade and built a slave empire in colonial America and the Caribbean, with the labor of millions of enslaved Africans who would see none of its riches.