Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge

Dr Malik Al Nasir will talk about his new book ‘Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge‘

We are delighted to provide a book stall at this event, organised by the University of Bristol.

Author and award-winning researcher, Malik Al Nasir will be discussing, Searching for my Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge, a powerful exploration of ancestry, enslavement, and legacy.

Set across Liverpool, Glasgow, Demerara and Berbice, the book traces Malik’s family history, revealing ancestors who were both enslaved and slaveholders, and uncovering the complex interconnections between trauma, privilege, and the institutions shaped by slavery.

The author will be in conversation with Dr Richard Stone.

3-3.30pm Welcome and Tea & Coffee
3.30-4.30pm In conversation with Malik Al-Nasir and Dr Richard Stone with time for Q&A .
4.30-5pm Book signing, and informal meeting with the author.

About Malik Al Nasir
Malik Al Nasir is an author, film maker, performance poet, and an award winning academic from Liverpool.
Malik started tracing his roots back through Caribbean slavery over 20 years ago and his pioneering research has been recognised by Sir Hilary Beckles (Chair: CARICOM Commission for slavery reparations), historian David Olusoga, and The University of Cambridge, where Malik has just completed a PhD in history with a full scholarship. In recognition of the significance of his research, Malik received several awards whilst at Cambridge, as well as an honorary Doctorate from Liverpool Hope University.
Malik is co-founder of the policy making initiative, ‘Black Academia – Lifting the Barriers.’ He has produced and appeared in several documentaries with Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Benjamin Zephaniah, Public Enemy, Ice T and many other luminaries.
https://linktr.ee/malikalnasir

About Richard Stone
Dr. Richard Stone is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the University of Bristol. He specialises in Social and Economic history, especially the history and legacies of enslavement. He has worked with numerous institutions on researching their links to historic slavery, including the University of Bristol, Bristol Quakers, Bristol Cathedral, and the Society of Merchant Venturers. His first monograph Bristol and the Birth of the Atlantic Economy, 1500-1700 was published in 2024.

Tickets are free. Please book using this link.

Arts Complex, Lecture Theatre 2
11 Woodland Road Bristol BS8 1TB