Alex Renton is a journalist who has won awards for his work as an
investigator, war correspondent and food policy writer. He has also
worked for Oxfam, in East Asia, Haiti and on the Iraq war. Most
recently he has been a columnist on the Times and a correspondent
for Newsweek magazine. He lives in Edinburgh with his family.
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'A courageous, deeply affecting and excoriatingly honest account of
his family's role in enslavement' - PHILIPPE SANDS
'Renton . . . dismantles the myths with the efficiency of someone
shelling pistachios for a snack . . . remarkable . . . an
incredible work of scholarship' - SATHNAM SANGHERA
'An important book . . . one of the strengths of Renton's book is
that it takes seriously the issue of class . . . In breaking class
ranks, Renton has given voice to a long suppressed truth . . . [an]
admirable book' - Observer
'In this unflinching, fascinating and very human account, drawn
from his own family papers, Alex Renton takes a crucial first step
towards reparation, by acknowledging the cruel reality of his
ancestors' callous exploitation of enslaved people's labour from
afar; detailing the damage done, and both asking and beginning to
answer the question of what can be done to purge these sins and
their legacies today' - MIRANDA KAUFMANN, author of Black
Tudors
'Blood Legacy is a moving, timely, well-written and strikingly
thoughtful book that makes an important contribution to the growing
debate on the horrors that accompanied Britain's empire-building.
Alex Renton's forensic and remarkably honest analysis of his own
family papers, and the profound darkness they contain, highlights
our continuing failure to acknowledge the extreme toxicity of so
much of our Imperial history' - WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
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