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Teaching about transatlantic slavery tends to focus on the USA, with the implication that Britain rejected slavery early on. However, Britain continued to enslave people to work on plantations across the British Empire long after it had been abolished in northern states of the USA. Equally, teaching the journey to abolition often focuses on the efforts of active, philanthropic white people seeking to free passive Black people – perpetuating, into the 21st century, a myth of freedom as a gift from a ‘white saviour’ rather than an inherent human right asserted by the enslaved. Yet, it was sustained resistance by enslaved people over hundreds of years that eventually forced Britain to end slavery across the British Empire in 1833. These books help to teach the complex history of active resistance to British slavery in Jamaica.