Marika Sherwood

A slaveowner violently seperates a family, engraving by Alexander Anderson based on oral testimony given to the Select Committee Appointed to Take the Examination of Witnesses Respecting the African Slave Trade, 1791. New York Public Library. Public Doma

The Survival of the Nefarious Slave Trade

British traders in enslaved Africans found ways around the Slave Trade Act of 1807, while commerce flourished through the import of slave-grown cotton.

Blacks in Tudor England

Marika Sherwood reveals the state of our knowledge – and ignorance – about a period of our multi-racial past.

Lynching in Britain

Marika Sherwood looks at the history of racist attacks in Britain, following the criticism of police handling of the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993.

The Making of New World Slavery

Robin BlackburnGeneral History of the Caribean, volume III: The slave Societies of the Caribbean.Franklin W. KnightThe Slave Trade. The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870Hugh Thomas

Black Men and Women in the Gordon Riots

Marika Sherwood trawls contemporary reports of the anti-Catholic protests that rocked London in June 1780 to reveal the black men and women who took part, exploring their motives and punishments for doing so.

Ticket of Leave

Marika Sherwood on race and exploitation at sea.