victoria’s Reviews > Black and British: A Forgotten History > Status Update

“how was it possible to be a “coloured empire’ ruling over black people on west indian islands & across africa while at the same time seeking to prevent people from these regions from visiting the nation that they were told was their ‘mother country’ & the centre of their empire? how could britain call upon black men and women to fight and labour in war and then exclude them from the fruits of victory?”

i am aware that im reading this so slowly but a) i really can’t speed read non-fiction and b) given the subject matter i want to give this book the time it deserves