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In 1752 a Liverpool merchant builds a slave ship, the Liverpool Merchant, and his nephew Matthew Paris, a doctor ruined by scandal, goes aboard as its surgeon.
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Middle Passage
In 1830 Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave and petty thief in New Orleans, stows away on a ship to escape a forced marriage, and finds it is a slaver bound for Africa.
Rites of Passage
Near the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Edmund Talbot, a young gentleman sailing to Australia to take up a colonial post, keeps a journal of the voyage for his godfather, and of a timid clergyman who becomes the butt of the ship.
The Confessions of Nat Turner
A fictionalised account of the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner, told from inside the mind of a literate, tormented preacher.
Segu
In the late eighteenth century, the family of Dousika Traore, a nobleman of the Bambara kingdom of Segu in what is now Mali, is scattered by Islam, the slave trade and colonialism.
The March
Sherman's March to the Sea becomes a panoramic novel of the Civil War's end, seen through the eyes of soldiers, slaves, and civilians swept up in the destruction.
The Shadow King
In 1935, as Mussolini's army invades Ethiopia, Hirut, an orphaned servant girl, joins the women who fight, and helps disguise a peasant as the emperor Haile Selassie.
The War of the End of the World
In the backlands of northeastern Brazil in the 1890s, a preacher known as the Counsellor gathers thousands of the poor at Canudos, and the new republic sends its army against them.
Shadow Country
The life and death of E. J. Watson, a sugar planter in the Florida Everglades at the turn of the century, shot dead by his neighbours in 1910, told by them, by his son and by Watson himself.
Tai-Pan
A ruthless trader builds a dynasty in nineteenth-century Hong Kong, clawing power from the chaos of the opium wars and the birth of the colony.
The Kingdom of This World
Ti Noël, an enslaved man in French Saint-Domingue, lives through the Haitian Revolution and the reign of King Henri Christophe, in a novel full of the marvellous real.
The Known World
In antebellum Virginia, a freed Black man becomes a slaveholder himself, and the moral catastrophe of the institution devours everyone it touches.
March
The absent father from Little Women goes to war as a Union chaplain, and his idealism about abolition meets the reality of slaughter and of the plantations run by the North.