Introduction. Atlantic lives : Anglo-African trade in northern Guinea -- Buyers and sellers in cross-cultural trade -- "Artificers" and merchants : making and moving goods -- West Africans profiting in Atlantic trade -- Company property : captives, rebels, and grometos -- Free agents and local...

Uncommon Wealth is the little known and shocking history of how Britain treated its former non-white colonies after the end of empire. It is the story of how an interconnected group of British capitalists enabled horrific inequality across the globe, profiting in colonial Africa, Asia and the...