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W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me, welcome to Empire with me Anita Arnan.

And me, William. Hello and welcome to Empire with me Anita Arnan and me William Durample.

Now we are with the very brilliant historian Maya Jassinoff and Maya you're so

interesting we build this as the story of Sierra Leone, but we didn't really

mention it at all in the last podcast. This has never happened before with us.

That's unknown in the empire world that this should happen.

But look, we're going to get to it now

because you introduced us to this rather extraordinary man,

Peters, who is just basically sick and tired

of bad promises and bad faith promises made to soldiers who fought

like he did for the British side. So he decided at the end of the last episode you said to take

his complaint to England.

And this man we should say for those who didn't hear the last episode,

this was a black former slave who had joined British forces,

fought with the black pioneers, fought very bravely, and then found that the

promises that had been made had not been fully honoured after the end of the war.

So who does he talk to in London?

I mean do we have abolitionists in London at this time who would be sympathetic to the complaints of a former slave?

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