Katrina Gulliver

Should we blame our ancestors for slavery when we’re equally culpable?

Two new books castigate former atrocities in the Caribbean but disregard the child labour involved in manufacturing computers today

The monument in Georgetown, Guyana to the Demerara uprising of 1823. [Alamy]
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  • White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery

    Thomas Harding

    Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 302, £20

  • Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s Story of Slavery

    Alex Renton

    Canongate, pp. 400, £16

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