In Absentia

10/02/23 • 27 min

In the last episode, we looked at the women in Jamaica who owned slaves, both British colonists and the formerly enslaved women who codified their freedom through subjugating others.

But there were also the women who didn’t stay, ones who never set foot in Britain’s slave colonies – the absentee owners.

Featuring historian Dr. Hannah Young, who specialises in gender and absentee slave ownership.

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In the last episode, we looked at the women in Jamaica who owned slaves, both British colonists and the formerly enslaved women who codified their freedom through subjugating others.

But there were also the women who didn’t stay, ones who never set foot in Britain’s slave colonies – the absentee owners.

Featuring historian Dr. Hannah Young, who specialises in gender and absentee slave ownership.

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GIRLBOSSES

Women made up 40% of slaveowners across the Caribbean – and although historians have had to dig even harder to pull together a picture of their lives, it’s out there.

Featuring Assistant Professor of Atlantic World History at Yale and US College in Singapore and author of Jamaica Ladies, Christine Walker

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In this episode we’re venturing onto the bustling city streets of 18 century London, trying to uncover the traces of the Black individuals who became part of the working class communities – and sometimes elite society – of the British capital, the seat of power that directed the trade that has usually brought them to these shores in the first place.

Featuring PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham, Montaz Marché.

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