Recaptive number 11,407

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

An astonishing series of documents in Sierra Leone named the Registers of Liberated Africans record details of Africans freed from slavery by the British Royal Navy in the 19th Century. There is one entry in the registers that simply says 'Recaptive Number 11,407, without name, deaf and dumb'. In this documentary mixing poetry and new historical research, award-winning deaf poet Raymond Antrobus goes on a personal journey to Sierra Leone to trace a piece of forgotten history and try to find out what became of this deaf man without a name.

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0:00.0	I'm Gene Lee.
0:01.4	And I'm Jeff White.
0:02.4	And we're back with a brand new episode of our podcast, The Lazarus Heist, recorded
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0:14.9	and North Korea.
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0:30.2	wherever you found this podcast.
0:38.2	It's a bright morning of a national maritime museum in Greenwich.
0:42.4	Light streams through the large windows of the main hall.
0:45.8	But it's a quieter room and a more dimly lit corner, but I'm here to visit.
0:52.6	A senior curator, Robert Blythe, shows me a picture of a ship.
0:58.2	So what we're looking at is a small painting by William Huggins, which shows a British
1:04.3	warship.
1:06.1	It seems to depict a moment of British heroism.
1:10.8	A royal navy boat fires its weapons at a slave ship.
1:16.4	The revolution in 1807, Britain begins a slow process of trying to turn itself almost
1:23.8	into the world anti-slavery policeman.
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