British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals
Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how monarchy and navy protected slave trade for hundreds of yearsThe British crown and the navy expanded and protected the trade in enslaved African people for hundreds of years, unprecedented research into the monarchy’s historical ties to slavery...
<p><strong>Exclusive:</strong> Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how monarchy and navy protected slave trade for hundreds of years</p><p>The British crown and the navy expanded and protected the trade in enslaved African people for hundreds of years, unprecedented research into the monarchy’s historical ties to slavery has found.</p><p>The Crown’s Silence, a book by the historian Brooke Newman, follows the Guardian’s 2023 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/series/cost-of-the-crown">Cost of the Crown</a> report, which explored the British monarchy’s hidden ties to transatlantic slavery.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/23/british-crown-was-worlds-largest-buyer-of-enslaved-people-by-1807-book-reveals">Continue reading...</a>
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