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The Demerara slave uprising

Thomas Harding discusses a little-known uprising by enslaved people in the British colony of Demerara in 1823

• Ellie Cawthorne

Published: January 10, 2022 at 12:26 PM

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Thomas Harding speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about his new book, White Debt, which recounts the little-known uprising by enslaved people in the British colony of Demerara in 1823, as told through the experiences of four eyewitnesses.

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Thomas Harding is the author of White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022)

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