We’re back to a well-trodden theme: following the money to understand how Scotland’s national development was shaped by the slave trade – and who the winners and losers were among the people who were trying to profit from enslavement.

Featuring; Alison Clark, a PhD candidate at Edinburgh University and Lisa Willaims who runs the Edinburgh Caribbean Association and leads walking walks uncovering the stories of enslavement linked with built heritage

Full episode transcript available here.

CREDITS

Writer and Host Moya Lothian-McLean

Editor and Producer Renay Richardson

Researchers Arisa Loomba and Dr. Alison Bennett

Sound Designer Lex Adimora

Production Assistant Rory Boyle

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In the first of our episodes spotlighting Scotland’s slaving history, we went big and broad. Now it’s time to get personal, to uncover the individual stories which, pieced together, can paint a picture of how the lives of Scottish migrants and enslaved Africans collided.

Featuring Desha Osborne who teaches Literature in the department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies at Hunter College.

The full episode transcript can be found here.

CREDITS

Written and Hosted by Moya Lothian-Mclean

Editor and Producer Renay Richardson

Researchers Arisa Loomba and Dr. Alison Bennett

Sound Designer Lex Adimora

Production Assistant Rory Boyle

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When we talk about the ‘British’ Empire and the ‘British’ slave trade, it’s easy to forget that England – although the central seat of power – was not the only country involved. And for the next three episodes, we’re going to turn our attentions to one of the nations that has all-too-often escaped the full scrutiny of its role in the wider system of slavery: bonnie Scotland itself.

Featuring Dr. Karly Kehoe the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada communities at St. Mary's University in Halifax.

Full episode transcript can be found here.

CREDITS

Host and Writen by Moya Lothian-Mclean

Editor and Producer Renay Richardson

Researchers Arisa Loomba and Dr. Alison Bennett

Sound Design by Lex Adimora

Production Assistant Rory Boyle

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In part 1 of Origin Stories, we explored the dominant narratives around the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade. But within every accepted history are a multitude of stories, interpretations, and conflicting ‘truths’. In this episode, we try to understand how the origins of slavery are explained from the perspective of those who were enslaved. 

Featuring information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/jose-lingna-nafafe">Dr. Jose Lingna Nafafe and Professor Toby Green.

Full episode transcript available here.

CREDITS

Writer and Host Moya Lothian-Mclean

Editor and Producer Renay Richardson

Researchers Arisa Loomba and Dr. Alison Bennett

Sound Design Lex Admira

Production Assistant Rory Boyle

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Before the 400-odd years of the triangular trade, the plantations, the whips, the Sunday markets, the racial science. What were the first stirrings of an industry that we now understand as the pinnacle of inhumanity, but in the 1600s seemed the height of financial innovation?

Featuring PHD candidate Patricia Martins Marcos.

The full episode transcript can be found here.

CREDITS

Written and hosted by Moya Lothian-McLean

Editor and Producer is Renay Richardson

Researchers are Arisa Loomba and Dr. Alison Bennett

Production Assistant is Rory Boyle

Sound Design by Lex Adimora

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The journey of the Middle Passage is one of the most evocative images of slavery, taught in schools as an example of brutality. It was the sea voyage of no return. In this episode, we discover the realities of this horrific journey and what legacies we still live with.

Featuring Sowande Mustakeem, Associate Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. This episode also features music from Slavery At Sea: The Book Soundtrack by Sowande Mustakeen which can be streamed and purchased here.

The full episode transcript can be found here.

CREDITS

Written and hosted by Moya Lothian-McLean

Editor and Producer is Renay Richardson

Researchers are Arisa Loomba and Dr. Alison Bennett

Production Assistant is Rory Boyle

Sound Design by Lex Adimora

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When Britain’s railways are placed within the context of the empire they helped to maintain, they are framed as one of the only ‘good’ legacies of imperialism. In this episode, we focus on the original Great Western Railway and how it's linked to history within the British slave trade.

Featuring Dr. Oli Betts, research lead at the National Railway Museum in York.

The full episode transcript can be found here.

CREDIT

Written by Moya Lothian-McLean

Editor and Producer Renay Richardson

Researchers are Dr. Alison Bennett and Arisa Loomba

Production Assistant is Rory Boyle

Sound Design by Ben Yellowitz and the Smiley Sound Collective

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The image of ‘England’s green and pleasant land’ is one that has endured for centuries, but is this land really for everyone?

Featuring PHD Student Annabelle Gilmore and Maxwell Ayamber PHD Student and founder and Project Coordinator of Sheffield Environmental Movement.

The full episode transcript can be found here.

CREDIT:

Written by Moya Lothian-McLean

Editor and Producer Renay Richardson

Researchers Dr. Alison Bennett and Arisa Loomba 

Production Assistant is Rory Boyle

Sound Design by Ben Yollowitz and the Smiley Sound Collective

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Did the Slave rebellions play a part in the British Monarchy's stance on abolition?

Featuring author and associate professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, Brooke Newman.

The full episode transcript can be found here.

CREDITS

Written and hosted by Moya Lothian-McLean

Editor and Producer is Renay Richardson

Researchers are Arisa Loomba and Dr. Alison Bennett

Production Assistant is Rory Boyle

Sound Design by Lex Adimora

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The British monarchy is one of the oldest and most resilient in the world. In this episode, we explore their links with the slave trade and just how involved they were.

Featuring author and associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University, Brooke Newman.

The transcript for this episode can be found here.

CREDITS

Written and Hosted by Moya Lothian-McLean

Editor and Producer Renay Richardson

Researchers Arisa Loomba and Dr. Alison Bennett

Production Assistant Rory Boyle

Sound Design Lex Adimora

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