Greatest Hits: Race, Religion, Capital, and Slavery in the 16th Century Atlantic / Gerald Horne

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Historian Gerald Horne explores the terrains of race, religion, capital and slavery across the 16th century trans-Atlantic world - as European powers pillaged Africa and the Americas of both people and resources, their destruction created the enduring formations of life in the 21st century - White supremacy and rapacious capitalism. Gerald is author of the book The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century from Monthly Review Press. Please show your appreciation for completely listener-supported This is Hell! by becoming a Patreon patron at patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	What man? White man came across the sea.
0:15.0	He brought us pain and misery.
0:18.0	He killed on tribes.
0:21.0	He killed a tree. He killed a tree. He took a game for his own need.
0:30.0	We bought him hard. We've bought him well out on the brains.
0:35.0	We gave him help.
0:38.0	But when it came so much for free,
0:42.0	or will we ever... so much free free riding through those clouds and brown wastes,
0:53.0	you're a big deal.
0:55.0	This is the least in the future.
0:58.0	It's pretty dangerous.
1:00.0	Fighting in the home game.
1:01.0	We're out of a freedom, scaring the wind. Oh, baby. Oh, not a woman's staring away from.
1:04.0	We're the children that cow is a child.
1:07.0	And it's a child.
1:08.0	And it's a good thing. This is hell.
1:17.0	hell. Hello again listeners this is Will Ipin producer on this is hell filling in still for Chuck Mertz who is currently
1:40.3	way on his family's annual vacation in Northern Michigan.
1:46.0	I trust that so far it's been restorative and incident-free.
1:50.0	I still haven't heard any news from Chuck other than the internet connectivity is quite
1:57.1	elusive and man Chuck that sounds blissful Enjoy it while you can.
2:04.0	Elusive internet connectivity is beautiful where you are, but less blissful here.
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