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Uh, we're back.

Yeah, uh, welcome to Behind the Bastards, a podcast that is this week not about bad things.

Uh, it's about good things.

Um, well, kind of.

It's still about bad things, but it's about how good things were done to fight a bad thing.

Anyway, we're talking about the end of the slave trade with our guest James Stout.

Author James Stout.

Author, Dr. James Stout.

That's right.

Yeah, I am.

Both of those things. I have recently written a book. I've written two books, actually. The first one, you should get at your library. You shouldn't pay for it. It's far too expensive. But the second one, I would love it if you pre-ordered. It's called Against the State. It's about anarchists and comrades at war in Spain, Myanmar and Rajava.

And it contains many of the things I have learned while being fortunate enough to share

small parts of these two revolutions and study the other in an academic fashion.

I think there's a lot you can learn if you're not particularly interested in conflict and war.

And I hope that people will pre-order it from AK Press. Yeah, pre-order that from AK Press, and you'll be a hero too. Although, you know, not quite as much of a hero as the people we're talking about today, because they ended the slave trade. And, you know, that's pretty good. It's pretty good. It's the thing to do in your life.

Yeah, it's a pretty high bar.

This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed human.

So, yeah, when we left off here, there's just been, we had that case, and then we had Gregson,

they revisited it to see, like, should we, you know, retry Gregson v. Gilbert?

And they decide, yeah, probably.

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