The Haitian Revolution - the slave rebellion that succeeded

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This time; our eager non-historians Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell discuss the amazing story of the enslaved people of Haiti, who rose up and defeated a major world power and established the New World’s first independent black state. Episode includes violence, voodoo and a zombie. Recommended reading: Avengers of the New World by Laurent Dubois You are all free : the Haitian revolution and the abolition of slavery by Jeremy Popkin The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James Get all episodes a week early – when you support We Are History on Patreon: https://patreon.com/WeAreHistory Angela Barnes is on tour with her critically acclaimed, sold out Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Hot Mess’. Tickets are available here https://www.angelabarnescomedy.co.uk We Are History is written and presented by Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell. Audio production by Simon Williams and artwork by James Parrett. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. We Are History is a Podmasters Production. https://twitter.com/wearehistorypod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to We Are History, now officially the most popular podcast in the world,
0:10.1	if you discount all the podcasts more popular than this one.
0:13.1	It's a great achievement, Angela, and I think it's a testament to our rigorous adherence to the facts
0:17.7	and the honesty of us as presenters. And that's not me talking, that was King Charles III talking to the Pope and the honesty of us as presenters. And that's not me talking. That was
0:22.2	King Charles III talking to the Pope about the two of us only the other day. Oh, we're so deluded.
0:28.9	So, John, you've chosen this week's subject matter. And it's not an event we ever got taught
0:34.9	about in school, even though it feels pretty significant and
0:38.9	something we probably ought to know about. And even today, in Black History Month, I don't
0:45.2	think this massive story ever really makes the cut, doesn't it? Yeah, I'm going to stick my neck out
0:49.9	about Black History Month, Angela, which I think is a great innovation and much needed, but,
0:55.6	but the stuff that gets taught in Black History Month is, in a way, its own sort of neo-colonialism,
1:03.1	because all my kids were ever taught was Black American history, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King,
1:08.7	the Selma March. They were taught the same bits of black history
1:11.7	over and over again, and all from the most powerful country in the world, the country which
1:16.7	currently dominates the culture and economies of many other countries in the way that European
1:21.7	colonial powers did when all these racist problems took root. So all I'm saying is stop making
1:27.3	everything, including Black History Month, about the USA.
1:30.5	That's my two cents.
1:33.1	Oh, two Sontimes.
1:34.6	Those were two, there were two Euro cents, not dollar cents.
1:37.8	Of course they were, John.
1:38.8	So what you're saying, John, if I've got this right, is you're against Black History Month.
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