# Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract

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- Authors: [Richard Atkinson](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-atkinson)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2021-07-08
- Genres: Biography: general, Autobiography: general, Reportage, journalism or collected columns

## Description

Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021‘Rarely has family history been so vivid’ JENNY UGLOW‘An extraordinarily original work’ AMANDA FOREMANLike 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.

## Editions

### Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract

- Publisher: Fourth Estate
- ISBN: 978-00-0750-923-2
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2021-07-08
- Language: en_US