Adrian Goldberg interviews journalist Alex Renton, author of "Blood Legacy: Reckoning With A Family's Story Of Slavery", which details his ancestors' history of enslaving people from Africa on sugar cane plantations in the Caribbean.

We also hear contributions from Byline Times editor Hardeep Matharu; Professor Kehinde Andrews, author of The New Age Of Empire; and Sathnam Sanghera who wrote Empireland.

Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.

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"MY ANCESTORS WERE SLAVE OWNERS"