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Scottish writer Alex Renton tells bloody story of family's role in Caribbean slavery

Alex Renton, author of Blood Legacy. Photo by Caroline Irby - Over the past few years it’s been increasingly revealed – or rather, re-revealed – just how much of Britain’s wealth – which built and ran factories, canals and industrial machinery, the stately homes, the museums, the universities – came from “the West Indians” – the UK-based absentee landlords who profited from the transatlantic trade in African people. August institutions were created, sustained and enriched by the unpaid labour of enslaved Africans who produced cocoa and cotton, indigo, coffee and, cruellest of all, sugar, on estates throughout the Caribbean. The British would have been aware of a lot of this a long time ago, of course, if they’d just read Eric Williams. It was he who wrote in the 1940s in Capitalism and Slavery that the bricks of Liverpool, England’s biggest slaving port, were cemented with African blood – an unforgettably sickening but almost literal metaphor.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw on the "huge honour" of becoming a UNHCR global Goodwill Ambassador

UNHCR - British Hollywood actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw named UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

Gugu Mbatha-Raw at the Women s Centre in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda, May 2019, with Sifa Semeki, a refugee.  © UNHCR/Caroline Irby UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today announced the appointment of British actor Gugu Mbatha-Raw as its newest global Goodwill Ambassador. Gugu has been working as a High-Profile Supporter for UNHCR since 2018 and is a powerful advocate for the rights of refugees. “I’m so thankful to have the opportunity to work in support of refugees and help amplify their voices. I am always amazed by their courage and strength in the face of such seemingly insurmountable odds and it’s a real honour to play a part in sharing their stories. The Covid crisis has made us all aware of the fragility of the lives we build and the importance of doing all we can to support those who have had to leave the place they call home,” said Gugu.