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W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me William Drimple.

Right, our very special guest.

You don't need me to tell you because you've been riveted since Tuesday.

I know you have.

It's Vincent Brown and he's written this amazing book that we talked a little bit about in the first part of this two-part podcast, Taki's Revolt.

We didn't even get the taki of the revolt.

Until the last minute.

I mean it's just, it reminds me of my sort of history revision that I did as school.

It's like, you know, just do everything else except the thing that this the thing okay

you're gonna be examined that's just terrible but it's how I roll okay so tell us

about tacky what do we know and what do we think of his arrival in these lands and what does he think?

Just in the last minute of the last podcast, you actually used the word chief Taki.

Do we know that he was a chief on the

West Coast or so we actually don't know as much about tacky as we know about a

pongo wager who I described in the last episode of the podcast. We know that he arrives

as a grown man, but perhaps a young man, and that we do know that Tecky or Techie is a title for a chieftain, a gah chieftain in West Africa in the Gold Coast.

There are other Teaches actually, there's a Teache who's a leader of a slave conspiracy in Antigga in 1736.

And there's this Tache or Tachee in the parish or St Mary who leads Tache's revolt in 1760. So we don't know that much about

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