In this episode we’re venturing onto the bustling city streets of 18 century London, trying to uncover the traces of the Black individuals who became part of the working class communities – and sometimes elite society – of the British capital, the seat of power that directed the trade that has usually brought them to these shores in the first place.

Featuring PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham, Montaz Marché.

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In the last episode, we looked at the women in Jamaica who owned slaves, both British colonists and the formerly enslaved women who codified their freedom through subjugating others.

But there were also the women who didn’t stay, ones who never set foot in Britain’s slave colonies – the absentee owners.

Featuring historian Dr. Hannah Young, who specialises in gender and absentee slave ownership.

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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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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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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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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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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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In the first of our episodes spotlighting Scotland’s slaving history, we went big and broad. Now it’s time to get personal, to uncover the individual stories which, pieced together, can paint a picture of how the lives of Scottish migrants and enslaved Africans collided.

Featuring Desha Osborne who teaches Literature in the department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies at Hunter College.

The full episode transcript can be found here.

CREDITS

Written and Hosted by 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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When we talk about the ‘British’ Empire and the ‘British’ slave trade, it’s easy to forget that England – although the central seat of power – was not the only country involved. And for the next three episodes, we’re going to turn our attentions to one of the nations that has all-too-often escaped the full scrutiny of its role in the wider system of slavery: bonnie Scotland itself.

Featuring Dr. Karly Kehoe the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada communities at St. Mary's University in Halifax.

Full episode transcript can be found here.

CREDITS

Host and Writen by Moya Lothian-Mclean

Editor and Producer Renay Richardson

Researchers Arisa Loomba and Dr. Alison Bennett

Sound Design by Lex Adimora

Production Assistant Rory Boyle

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In part 1 of Origin Stories, we explored the dominant narratives around the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade. But within every accepted history are a multitude of stories, interpretations, and conflicting ‘truths’. In this episode, we try to understand how the origins of slavery are explained from the perspective of those who were enslaved. 

Featuring Dr. Jose Lingna Nafafe and Professor Toby Green.

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 Design Lex Admira

Production Assistant Rory Boyle

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This is a Broccoli Production

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