Mark Lennox

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‘If we purchase the commodity we participate in the crime. The slave-dealer, the slave-holder, and the slave-driver, are virtually the agents of the consumer, and may be considered as employed and hired by him to procure the commodity . . . In every pound of sugar used . . . we may be considered as consuming two ounces of human flesh’.
Black and British: A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors' (Picador Collection)
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