Ben Franklin's World is a production of the

O'Mohandro Institute and production of this episode

was made possible by a grant from the Roller

Bottomore Foundation of Richmond, Virginia. Hello and welcome to episode 282 of Ben Franklin's world.

The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our

early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.

And I'm your host, Liz Covert. Between

1760 and 1761, Great Britain witnessed one of the largest slave

insurrections in the history of its empire. Now although this revolt took place on the island of Jamaica,

the reverberations of this revolt

stretched across the Atlantic Ocean

and into the British North American colonies.

Vincent Brown, the Charles Warren Professor of American History,

and a professor of African American Studies at Harvard University,

joins us to investigate this event known as Taki's Revolt,

and how this revolt served as an Eddie within the larger current of Atlantic warfare.

And he plans to do all of this with details from his book, Taki's Revolt, the story of an Atlantic slave war.

Now during our investigation, Vincent reveals why we need to understand the

18th century politics, warfare, and slave trade of Africa, to understand the events in the larger 18th century Atlantic world.

Why Jamaica grew to become Great Britain's most profitable Atlantic colony and white sugar plantations

came to rely on enslaved labor? And and details about Taki's revolt and the ways in which

this revolt interconnected with four different Atlantic Wars.

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