56. Tacky's Revolt: Causes of the Rebellion

Empire: World History

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🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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What was life like for enslaved people on the plantations? How did white people treat their slaves? What economic model did plantation owners operate on? William and Anita are joined this week Vincent Brown, Professor at Harvard and co-founder of Timestamp Media, to discuss Tacky's Revolt and in this episode they focus upon the horrific circumstances that slaves had to endure. **TRIGGER WARNING: this episode contains graphic descriptions of the brutal treatment of slaves, do not listen with children. Sign up to The Knowledge here: www.theknowledge.com/empire/ LRB Empire offer: lrb.me/empire This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/empirepod. Twitter: @Empirepoduk Goalhangerpodcasts.com Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Jack Davenport + Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:14.4	W.
0:15.1	W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me.
0:23.0	me, will.
0:25.0	We're in.
0:28.0	Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnan. And me,
0:34.3	William Drimpel.
0:36.0	We have a very special guest today.
0:38.0	Somebody I respect enormously.
0:40.1	He is Vincent Brown, the Charles Warren Professor of History at Harvard University,
0:43.7	author of, well it's a simply extraordinary book.
0:47.5	Dazzling, Dazzling book.
0:48.8	Yeah, Dazzling is a very good adjective.
0:50.8	It's called Taki's Revolt revolt the story of an Atlantic slave war and it is the topic of today's
0:56.8	podcast and it dovetails very neatly in what we were talking about in the last episode
1:01.8	William about the Royal African Company and the commodification of human beings on an
1:06.5	industrial scale never seen before on this planet.
1:09.8	But what is wonderful about it and what we didn't get into our last podcast at all really was to
1:15.0	telescope it down to individuals and real people particularly real African individuals caught up in this?
1:21.6	It was yeah it was it was the one hand clapping because we were
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