Black and British Quotes

“Black British history is everyone’s history and is all the stronger for it.”
― David Olusoga, Black and British: A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors'

“On a peninsula protruding into one of the great highways of the Atlantic slave trade, a few hundred refugees from British slavery in North America were attempting to recreate the social structures of Northern Europe in the Middle Ages.”
― David Olusoga, Black and British: A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors'

“We have developed what amounts to a cultural blind spot about these chapters of our past, and our collective squeamishness that prevents us from openly discussing British slavery and the darker aspects of British imperialism has rendered us unable to properly appreciate the place of black people and Africa in our national story.”
― David Olusoga, Black and British: A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors'

“Time and again events and phenomena that we think we know and understand contain within them lost or camouflaged connections to Africa, slavery and black history.”
― David Olusoga, Black and British: A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors'

“The pioneers called their little settlement Granville Town in honour of Sharp.”
― David Olusoga, Black and British: A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors'

“More than any other ethnic group, it is the black British population who are mixing. Today, 48 per cent of black Caribbean men and 34 per cent of black Caribbean women are in relationships with partners of a different ethnic group.”
― David Olusoga, Black and British: A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors'