Over course of 350 years, from the dawn of the 16th century till the second half of the 18th century, over 5 million men, women and children were kidnapped, bound and shipped from the continent of Africa to the other side of the world. To work and to die, to feed ever expanding European imperial ambitions. These empires plundered the world, off the backs of the people they deemed lesser.

But there was one they feared. A slave who became a rebel. A rebel who became a queen. A queen, who defied an Empire.

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From across the vast seas they came. First a trickle, then a torrent of pale men with fire in their hands and hunger in their eyes. While they spoke a strange tongue, the desire of these cross wearing foreigners was plain for anyone with eyes to see. They sought to plunder the gold in the rivers, and the silver in the earth.

And when these riches ripped from this sacred land began to spread back across the seas and beyond, a small village in the shadow of a mountain would become the centre of a new world…

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Empires rise, and empires fall. The never ending march of time will eventually grind all civilisations into the dust, preparing the ground for new nations to rise. Often it is the stories told of these empires that lives on through the ages. Tales of conquest or of social upheaval. Tales that provide an ideal to live up to or a warning to heed.

However the mightiest of empires can leave more than memories behind. The ancient structures that dot our world tell their own story of what came before. And sometimes, great works of the past can leave such an indelible mark upon the land that even the passing of a millennia cannot erase what a certain King of Kings had wrought…

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In the streets of 1770 colonial Boston, working men and woman are a flame with ideas of revolution. Straining under the ever growing economic oppression of the British parliament, the city was rapidly becoming a powder keg about to explode.

So when a shot from a red coat musket turned a riot into a massacre, why didn't the city erupt into chaos? The answer lies in the subsequent court case, where a future founding father took the stand to defend the guilty party...

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Since the dawn of time, humanity has looked out across wide lands that we inhabit, captivated by the wonder and the beauty they see before them. But I’m willing to bet that some of those humans taking in the view may has also thought “wouldn’t it be nice if it didn’t take so bloody long to walk everywhere?”. Alas until the invention wheel and the domestication of the horse, a brisk march was the fastest a human could hope to travel to explore the world.

Unless of course that human lived in the northern most parts of our world, in a land of ice and snow. For the people of those harsh, cold climates, the opportunity to fly across the mountains and valleys of their home was in reach long before the rest of the world would catch up…

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It takes a truly remarkable spirit to pack up all your worldly possessions, load your loved ones into a wagon, and brave the wilds on unknown lands in search for paradise. But it takes even more spirit, to pick yourself up and create a new life when that dream of a paradise, becomes a nightmare...

In this episode of the Cloak and Dagger Podcast, we hear the unbelievable tale of Olive Oatman, a pioneer who helped bridged the chasm between two peoples.

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We’ve all been astonished by the thieves who stole 88 million euros worth of jewellery from the Louvre earlier this year. But this was hardly the first heist that the most visited museum in the world has weathered.

On a warm autumn day in 1911, one man strolled into the Louvre and walked out the next day with a priceless treasure under his arm. This event would send shockwaves around the world. Not just because the thief had completely stumped the police, but because the treasure that had been stolen, was the most famous woman in the world…

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For many a nation throughout history, a grand overseas empire was their path to wealth, power and glory. It worked for the Romans, it worked for the English, and in 1698, the Scottish believed it would work for them too. A colony in the new world, with all its exotic riches and boundless potential, could be just the ticket to reverse the fortunes for the Kingdom of Scotland.

Such an endeavour however, requires a big gamble. And you must hope that the cards you're dealt are enough to keep you in the game. Unless of course, the game was rigged from the start...

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A monastic life, is a simple life. Daily prayer. Quiet contemplation. A pursuit of inner peace over worldly excitements.

A pirate’s life on the other hand, is the exact opposite. Daily turmoil upon the high seas. Fiercely plotting deadly revenge. A pursuit of fame, fortune and all the pleasures of the world.

This is the tale of a man who traded one life for another, with a bit of black magic thrown in for the hell of it…

For this months episode of the Cloak and Dagger Podcast we are joined by a great friend of the podcast, Charlie Denton, who has brought us an extraordinary tale of a monk of questionable piety, sailing his way into the middle of a war between France and England.

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Life on this planet must endure a lot to survive. Earthquakes and tsunamis rock entire regions. While floods and wildfires destroy complex ecosystems in a matter of hours. And yet life always finds a way to flourish despite everything the world can throw at it.

However these acts of god are no longer the only cataclysms life must face. Mankind’s development over the last 10,000 years came from our unique ability to sculpt the world around us to better serve our needs. But in the last few centuries, this power of ours has been kicked into overdrive. Without knowing where this path would lead us, we developed a new way to run our civilisations that stoked the flames of industry while scorching the world around us even more. And this is the tale of where the spark of this new flame, first began to ignite…

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