This anthology commemorating the bicentenary of the British Slave Trade Abolition Act mixes testimony from former slaves such as Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince and Frederick Douglass, with fiction and poetry from contemporary writers such as James Berry, Benjamin Zephaniah, John Agard, Grace Nichols and Malorie Blackman herself. The collection includes materials on the theme of slavery in the British context and its unifying theme is one of paying tribute to lost voices and histories.