Dr. Eric Williams was a Trinidad historian and politician, who was one of the first major figures in history to dispel the theory that slavery ended because of a change of heart of the slave owners. He outlined that this shift was economic, not benevolent. Williams inaugurated his own political party, the People's National Movement (PNM) in 1956, which would take T&T into independence in 1962, and dominate its post-colonial politics eventually being a driving force for the West Indies Federation. We discuss his life and “curious mathematics” on today’s episode.

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