Cover art for Mr Atkinson's Rum Contract
Published
4th Estate, November 2021
ISBN
9780007509232
Format
Softcover, 512 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 3.4cm

Mr Atkinson's Rum Contract The Story of a Tangled Inheritance by

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Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021

'Rarely has family history been so vivid' JENNY UGLOW

'An extraordinarily original work' AMANDA FOREMAN

Like many well-to-do Georgian families, the Atkinsons' wealth was acquired at a terrible cost, through the labour and lives of enslaved Africans. Drawing on his ancestors' private correspondence, Richard Atkinson pieces together their unsettling story, from the weather-beaten house in Cumbria where they once lived to the ruins of their sugar estates in Jamaica. This extraordinarily original work of detective biography is also a uniquely personal account of one of the most disturbing chapters in Britain's colonial past.

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