Part One: X-Mas Special: The Heroes Who Ended The Slave Trade

Behind the Bastards

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History, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In our annual holiday reverse episode, Robert introduces James Stout to the heroes who fought to end the Atlantic Slave trade.

(3 part series)

Against the State by James Stout available for preorder here: https://www.akpress.org/against-the-state.html

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0:00.0	Quarzo Media
0:02.8	What's enslaving my
0:08.2	like 10 million people over the course of 300 or so years
0:12.8	Welcome to Behind the Basties then
0:14.8	Sophie people have missed the old kind of introduction
0:17.4	Where I did like a what's axing my wise sort of thing
0:20.2	Is there something inappropriate about how I did this intro it was very inappropriate also I liked my intro where
0:25.2	I said welcome to behind the bastards I'm not Robert Evans yeah you didn't do a British accent
0:30.7	last time so yeah yeah yeah choice but I was doing that but I was doing that not because of
0:36.2	our guests but because of our topic oh I thought you were doing that because of our guests, but because of our topic.
0:38.3	Oh, I thought you were doing that because of our guest.
0:40.5	No, I would never mock James.
0:43.4	Sir James Stout.
0:44.9	Sir James Stout.
0:45.9	There it is.
0:47.0	Yeah, absolutely not.
0:48.4	I don't think that's happening any time in the near future.
0:51.2	I know anyone touched me with a sword period.
0:53.3	I'd have back at them if they tried. Well, Margaret told me the other day that I would make a great queen of England. You did, Robert, when we fenced. Oh, yeah, we did. I was pretty drunk, I think. Yeah, I was drunk too, and we were using those crucifixes. Yeah, we were using crucifixes defense in Thailand. Before we get...
1:11.2	This is a podcast about the worst people in all of history.
1:14.1	But before we get to that, Robert, I want to take a moment for our dear friend James Stout to plug his new book that's available for pre-order.
1:23.2	Yeah, I was trying to introduce him before we did that, Sophie.
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