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I’ve always been interested in the epic story of how sugar, slavery and settlement shaped individual lives. I just had to find a way to tell it.

— Andrea Stuart

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I kept thinking this book tells a story that Britain does not want to remember.

The reality is that most blacks have mixed blood.

I wanted to take slavery out of its niche.

It’s not a black story, it’s not a white story. I want to remind people that this story belongs to us all.

When I was doing research on George Ashby, I felt some empathy. There’s something brave about leaving the world you know. If you can make that empathetic journey, you can show a more complicated picture.

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