{"product_id":"9780007509232","title":"Mr Atkinson's Rum Contract : The Story of a Tangled Inheritance by Richard Atkinson","description":"Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021                                `Rarely has family history been so vivid' JENNY UGLOW                                `An extraordinarily original work' AMANDA FOREMAN                    Like many well-to-do Georgian families, the Atkinsons' wealth was acquired at a terrible cost, through the labour and lives of enslaved Africans. Drawing on his ancestors' private correspondence, Richard Atkinson pieces together their unsettling story, from the weather-beaten house in Cumbria where they once lived to the ruins of their sugar estates in Jamaica. This extraordinarily original work of detective biography is also a uniquely personal account of one of the most disturbing chapters in Britain's colonial past.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56220329345397,"sku":"9780007509232","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780007509232.jpg?v=1762187417","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780007509232","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}