SRD 2025: Searching For My Slave Roots by Malik Al Nasir book event

A book event for ‘Searching for my Slave Roots’ by Malik Al Nasir will  take place at the Walker Art Gallery on 23 August 2025 from 5.30-7.30pm as part of Slavery Remembrance Day 2025.

An informal foyer reception hosted by Malik, will introduce guests to the 'Colonial Legacies of Liverpool's Sandbach Family' exhibit on the ground floor, followed by a book talk. The talk explores the main themes of his fascinating new book 'Searching for my Slave Roots' following the twists and turns of his journey into the past, to uncover how the Sandbach's enslaved his ancestors in Demerara.

A major subject of the book is the nuanced ways that trauma plays down through generations of the enslaved, and how wealth and privilege plays across generations of slaveholders and their descendants.

Announced by the University of Cambridge as the winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s Global Impact Award for his PhD research on the subject, Malik's new book unravels not just the legacies of enslavement but also plantation economics and the wealth of Liverpool's Sandbach Tinne slaveholding dynasty.

5:30pm – Introduction to displays at the Walker and refreshments
6pm – Talk exploring Malik’s research
6:30pm – Q&A and book signing

The event is supported by the Centre for the Study of International Slavery, a strategic partnership between National Museums Liverpool and University of Liverpool.