Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract: The Story of a Tangled Inheritance by Richard Atkinson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/398352 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract: The Story of a Tangled Inheritance Author: Richard Atkinson Narrator: John Banks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 16, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 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.