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My new book, Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery (2025) is published by Oneworld in the UK and Pegasus in the USA.
*** 'A sobering and significant achievement, this is a book you need to read.' Lucy Worsley 'A startling insight into the lives of the real “Mrs Rochesters”. The role of women in plantation slavery, as perpetrators and victims is uncovered by a historian at the height of her powers.' Anita Anand, author of The Patient Assassin and co-host of Empire 'A perfect balance of critical humour and searing historical insight. A must-read.' Paterson Joseph, actor and author of The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho 'Vivid, shocking and compulsively readable... Miranda Kaufmann is not just a fine investigative historian – she is a superb story-teller.' Alex Renton, author of Blood Legacy Read more about Heiresses here |
My first book, Black Tudors: The Untold Story, was published by Oneworld in 2017, to critical acclaim, named a Book of the Year by both the Evening Standard and the Observer and shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize in 2018.
‘Intricately researched and brilliantly written…Through these biographies Kaufmann paints a wider panorama of a Renaissance England that was globally aware and in contact with Africa and her people. This is history on the cutting edge of archival research but accessibly written and alive with human details and warmth. Black Tudors is a critical book that allows us to better understand an era of our national past that fascinates us like no other.’ - DAVID OLUSOGA
Read more about Black Tudors here
