Survivors

Who recommended it

1. HK

   Helen King Historian

   Year-end favourite

   Discussed in her Five Books interview on the 2025 Wolfson History Prize shortlist.

   Listed in the source as “Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade”.

   The Best History Books of 2025↗ Interviewfivebooks.com Five Books · 28 Nov 2025 · checked 13 Nov 2026

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