Britain's shameful legacy

A memorial in Georgetown to the rebellion
Alamy/MJ Photography

Even historians are taking the knee. Thomas Harding’s main subject here is the 1823 revolt of plantation slaves in Demerara-Essequibo, now part of Guyana. Because the majority of the slaves were Christian, there was surprisingly little violence against their white oppressors, but the reckoning was predictably bloody.

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