62. When Slaves Fought for the British Empire

Empire: World History

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🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The Boston Tea Party has occurred. War has broken out on the American continent. The British need to bolster their forces to keep hold of the 13 colonies, but to whom do they turn? Their own slaves. Listen as William and Anita are joined by Maya Jasanoff to discuss the slaves who fought for the British in the America War of Independence and how they were rewarded afterwards. 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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0:15.1	W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me, welcome to Empire with me Anita Arnun.
0:23.0	And me, William Durham. and me William Durand
0:35.0	William Durand.
0:36.0	You've got that grin on because you know what you did.
0:38.0	No, I've got a grin on because you know what you did.
0:39.0	No, I've got a grin on because I'm back to welcome on to this program.
0:42.0	One of my best friends, which I'm very excited about.
0:44.0	That's lovely.
0:45.0	I mean, that's very exciting.
0:46.0	Somebody I also admire very much.
0:48.0	Shall we do the build-up of drama rather than you just
0:51.0	smashing through the drama and just getting straight to the punchline.
0:53.6	I'm building it up now, this is it. This is the escalation of excitement.
0:57.2	Our guest is looking sort of dumbfounded.
1:00.0	It's okay, you'll be fine, but you are the man who says to get to the other side.
1:04.8	Oh, I mean, why did the chicken cost the road? I mean, this is how you tell jokes.
1:08.3	This is how you do stories.
1:09.4	I'm actually going to go straight ahead. And before she shakes her shakes her anymore I'm going to introduce
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