Exploring the true story of British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and how it touches every part of the nation. Hosted by Moya Lothian-McLean, a j...
Exploring the true story of British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and how it touches every part of the nation. Hosted by Moya Lothian-McLean, a j...
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GIRLBOSSES
Women made up 40% of slaveowners across the Caribbean – and although historians have had to dig even harder to pull together a picture of their lives, it’s out there.
Featuring Assistant Professor of Atlantic World History at Yale and US College in Singapore and author of Jamaica Ladies, Christine Walker
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25/09/2023
42:32
The Dis-carded
At the centre of the system of chattel slavery, was the body. Not the mind, not the soul but the physical vessel necessary to carry out backbreaking labour. And break backs it did...
Featuring historian of the Caribbean and the Atlantic, Stephanie Hunt Kennedy.
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18/09/2023
36:21
Hippocrits
The Hippocratic Oath isn’t universal. But in the 18th century, the Oath began to be more widely used in medical schools across the British Empire and Europe. The Enlightenment was pushing medical developments along at a fast lick. But concurrently, chattel slavery was in full swing. And a dividing line quickly emerged, between who doctors saw as ‘patients’ and who they viewed as ‘guinea pigs’.
Featuring Anna Arabindan-Kesson, an assistant professor at Princeton University in African American studies.
Written by Moya Lothian-MacLean
Editor and Producer - Renay Richardson
Researchers - Dr. Alison Bennett and Arisa Loomba
Production Assistant - Rory Boyle
Sound Designer - Ben Yellowitz
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11/09/2023
33:20
Inventing Race
Human civilization only began about 6,000 years ago. As author Emma Dabiri writes in her 2021 book, cheekily titled ‘What White People Can Do Next’, in the grand scheme of things, human beings are babies. A speck on the face of time and space. The thought puts into perspective how *new*, parts of society are, that seem entrenched from day dot: religion. Gender… Race.
Featuring writer and historian Subhadra Das.
Written by Moya Lothian MacLean
Editor and Producer - Renay Richardson
Researchers Arisa Loomba and Dr. Alison Bennett
Production Assistant - Rory Boyle
Sound Designer - Ben Yellowitz
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04/09/2023
38:51
Winners and Losers
We’re back to a well-trodden theme: following the money to understand how Scotland’s national development was shaped by the slave trade – and who the winners and losers were among the people who were trying to profit from enslavement.
Featuring; Alison Clark, a PhD candidate at Edinburgh University and Lisa Willaims who runs the Edinburgh Caribbean Association and leads walking walks uncovering the stories of enslavement linked with built heritage
Full episode transcript available here.
CREDITS
Writer and Host Moya Lothian-McLean
Editor and Producer Renay Richardson
Researchers Arisa Loomba and Dr. Alison Bennett
Sound Designer Lex Adimora
Production Assistant Rory Boyle
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Exploring the true story of British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and how it touches every part of the nation. Hosted by Moya Lothian-McLean, a journalist and descendent of both Black African Slaves and White slave owners or overseers.