My granny the slave

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Writer Claire Hynes goes on a personal journey to uncover the story of an Antiguan foremother, who is thought to be one of the first women to flee a slave plantation in the Caribbean island of Antigua. Claire grew up learning a 200 year-old story passed down through generations about her enslaved ancestor known as Missy Williams. As a young woman Missy risked her life to escape the physical and sexual brutality of plantation life, hiding out in a cave. Inspired by her courage and intelligence, Claire travels to the island of Antigua to find out about Missy’s life, the extreme challenges she faced and how she managed to survive.

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1:00.1	and I'm surrounded by palm trees.
1:03.4	It's a really beautiful hot sunny day and I'm in Antigua
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1:16.6	But this paradise island contains a really troubling history.
1:21.3	And slave people in Antigua would have had quite a grueling everyday existence.
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