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 5-7pm as part of Slavery Remembrance Day 2025.

Malik will explore the main themes of his fascinating new book. Following the twists and turns of his journey into the past, 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 research, in ‘Searching for my Slave Roots’ Malik unravels not just the legacies of slavery but also plantation economics and the wealth of a slaveholding dynasty. The event is supported by the Centre for the Study of International Slavery, a strategic partnership between National Museums Liverpool and University of Liverpool.