Crowns Silence Exaiie PB

A ground-breaking and essential work of historythe first of its kind to closely examine the British Royal Familys connection with the transatlantic slave tradeThe Crown’s Silenceis the untold story of the British royal familys relationship to slavery from the reign of Elizabeth I to the present. It will be the first history of the British monarchy told through the lens of its intimate, centuries-long relationship with African slave trading, slavery, and racial injustice.A work of ground-breaking original research and narrative synthesis, it exposes the ways in which the British monarchy invested in, expanded, and defended the transatlantic slave trade for nearly three centuries and how it continues to profit from systems of racial exploitation to this daywhile remaining silent in the face of that legacy. It will reveal how the Crown effectively ruptured and reshaped Britains national narrative and collective memory of its own colonial past as well as the consequences of that deafening silence.As former British colonies in the Caribbean consider severing their ties with the Crown (and the British royal family sends emissaries to try to keep them),The Crown’s Silencetells a history that is very much in the headlinesand will no doubt continue to be. It will be the next chapter in revealing the lost histories of not only Britain and the United States, but of our world.