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Empire & Jihad: Neil Faulkner Interview

Neil Faulkner has written a new book on the Anglo-Arab Wars and we sat down to discuss it.

Neil Faulkner

Neil Faulkner, your book opens in 1851 with the explorer and missionary, David Livingstone, who encounters what turns out to be a huge slave trade that stretches from Africa to India. Whilst Britain had abolished slavery in 1833, what were the numbers that were...

The Other Slave Trade

Slavery continued well after the practice was abolished in the British Empire, as ivory was transported to satisfy Victorian demand.

Neil Faulkner

The West African slave trade has become a staple of history teaching and popularisation. Rightly so. The triangular trade – trinkets from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to the Americas, plantation commodities from the Americas to Europe – was the most visceral...