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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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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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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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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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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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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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